MPP

Migrants, mainly from Cuba, block the Paso del Norte border crossing bridge after a US appeals court blocked the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program, which sent asylum-seekers back to Mexico to await the outcome of their case, in Ciudad Juarez.

Lawyers struggle to remotely represent asylum-seekers in ‘Remain in Mexico’ program

Immigration

Many US immigration attorneys — most of them pro bono — have found themselves remotely representing asylum-seekers stuck hundreds of miles away in Mexican border towns. The attorneys say this introduces unprecedented difficulties to their jobs — and could violate clients’ right to due process in the US.