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Nearly 60,000 people have been forcibly returned to\nMexico by the U.S. government since the implementation of Remain in Mexico just\nover one year ago. This policy has created a humanitarian aid disaster \u2014 and\nwhile there was briefly hope of judicial action to end Remain in Mexico, the\nSupreme Court upheld the policy in a decision<\/a> on\nMarch 11.\nJudicial approval of Remain in Mexico means that community action on this\npolicy is more important than ever, and community groups are organizing to end\nit in the face of extreme challenges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The officially titled \u201cMigrant Protection\nProtocols,\u201d or MPP, is referred to as the Remain in Mexico policy by immigrant\nadvocates. Remain in Mexico is a policy of forcibly returning people who have\nmade asylum claims to Mexican border cities to wait for their court dates,\noften for many months. This policy is part of the Trump administration\u2019s\nintentional effort to discourage people from seeking asylum in the United\nStates. First\nimplemented in the San Diego sector in January 2019, Remain in Mexico has\nexpanded rapidly across the U.S.-Mexico border.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saying that this policy is for \u201cmigrant\nprotection\u201d is intentionally misleading; Remain in Mexico has created more\ndanger for migrants. Under this policy, asylum seekers are returned to places\nwhere they are targeted for kidnapping, extortion and violence at the hands of\ncriminal gangs. A recent Human Rights First report<\/a> documented 816\ncases of violence against people returned through\nRemain in Mexico, which is almost certainly an undercount given the\nnumber of abuses that are not able to be documented. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

People returned to Mexico under this policy have\ndifficulty securing lawyers, and they have an extraordinarily low chance of\nbeing granted asylum even if they are connected with legal resources. Of the\nnearly 30,000 asylum cases that had been completed under MPP as of January\n2020, only 187 resulted<\/a> in a favorable asylum outcome. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A\nprofound human rights disaster<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When people seeking asylum arrive on the south side of the U.S.-Mexico border en route\nto the United States, they endure threats and violence from organized crime, hostility\nfrom governments on both sides of the border, humanitarian aid non-governmental\norganizations with finite capacity, and indefinite wait times created by the\nTrump administration\u2019s metering\npolicy<\/a>. Metering forces asylum\nseekers to wait for months before being permitted by Customs and Border\nProtection, or CBP, to enter a port of entry and present their asylum claims. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Razor wire adorns the border wall between Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora.” (WNV\/Katie Sharar)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Under Remain in Mexico, people petitioning for asylum\ngo from one wait in precarious conditions on the border to another, removed by\nthe U.S. government to cities where they are highly vulnerable to violence,\nextortion, and kidnapping by organized crime. Asylum seekers forced back to\nMexico also find themselves in risky living conditions. They often go without\nadequate food and water, access to bathrooms or medical care, and live in\ntents, which is hazardous in extreme weather conditions in both the winter and\nsummer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faced with two periods of indefinite waiting in\nhostile or dangerous locations, people on the move\nare forced to try to discern the least worst option. Some, faced with a six-month wait through metering, may\ndecide to try to cross around a port of entry, others through fatal desert\nterrain. Still others, out of desperation,\nhave sent their children to present at the border as unaccompanied minors,\nhoping that will exempt their children from the threatening wait time of\nMPP. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Nogales, Sonora, asylum-seekers \u2014\nmostly single adults from Cuba and Venezuela \u2014 decided on November 26, 2019, to\nbuy a car and drive to the border through the vehicle lanes instead of waiting months to be allowed to cross<\/a>. They made this decision with the understanding that they would\nbe held in immigration detention instead of being \u201creleased\u201d through Remain in\nMexico \u2014 recognizing that prison is a \u201csafer\u201d place for them to wait than\nJuarez. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asylum seekers make hard decisions like\nthese in the presence of danger. They experience violence and death in\nappalling numbers \u2014 in CBP custody and out of it. Asylum seekers forcibly\nreturned to Mexico through MPP are specifically targeted by violent actors as a\nvulnerable population, and experience high\nrates of violence<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hundreds of asylum-seekers wait for months in Nogales, Sonora. Humanitarian groups such as the Kino Border Initiative provide meals, basic medical care, and legal assistance while they are stranded in the border city. (WNV\/April Wong)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This current moment of pandemic is putting\nasylum-seekers at even greater risk, with poor sanitation and limited medical\ncare available to the large numbers of people returned to Mexico and living in\nclose quarters in places like Matamoros and Nogales. The Trump administration\nis using the COVID-19 pandemic as a pretext to further choke off access to\nasylum and due process under the guise of \u201cpublic health.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights recently found<\/a>\nthat, even before wide-spread coronavirus, the combined policies of metering\nand Remain in Mexico \u201cput the lives of migrants and their families in danger\nand at times resulted in their needless deaths.\u201d As government actions and\npublic silence force people into increasingly desperate choices, there will\ninevitably be more violence and more deaths. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How\nmuch will we endure before taking action? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018, many people around the world\nwere rightfully outraged by the Trump administration\u2019s zero-tolerance policy\nthat intentionally separated thousands of families. The mass organizing around\nthe practice \u2014 through protests, media coverage, organizing at the border,\ncalls to elected representatives and the mobilization of newly-activated groups\n\u2014 formally ended the policy several months after it began. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was one of the few victories for the immigrant rights\nmovement during an administration hell-bent on choking off asylum. The\nappalling family-separation policy largely died because of sustained public\nexpressions of outrage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remain in Mexico intentionally takes advantage of the \u201cout of sight, out of mind\u201d phenomenon, removing people seeking asylum from our spheres of attention.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Remain in Mexico is arguably as bad a policy as family separation \u2014 and it in fact may be worse, having been called<\/a> \u201cone of the worst humanitarian crises in the world\u201d by an expert. Yet Remain in Mexico is largely operated without widespread public backlash outside of migrant-focused organizations and communities. Most organizing, to date, has been regional or issue-specific. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Tucson, Arizona, organizing against MPP began in\nNovember 2019, when the policy was first implemented in the Tucson Border\nPatrol sector. The first protest took place on Nov. 29, and was attended by\nmore than 120 people. This rally kicked off the monthly meeting of a loose\ncoalition of non-profit organizations, humanitarian aid groups, and church workers\n\u2014 individuals with varying degrees of organizational affiliation and backing,\ngathering with layered goals of ending MPP in Tucson, ending Remain in Mexico\nnationally, and saving asylum for all. There are challenges to building any\nmovement, but the group organizing in Tucson has identified a number of\nchallenges particular to organizing against Remain in Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first, Remain in Mexico sounds like a relatively\nstraightforward policy: asylum seekers wait in Mexico until their cases are\ndecided. However, the ways it is implemented, and the impacts that\nimplementation has on the lives of real people, are profoundly complex. In\nTucson, the community has the dubious benefit of witnessing first-hand the\nimpacts of Remain in Mexico \u2014 both the community in Nogales, that is now\nreceiving asylum seekers returned through MPP, and the humanitarian aid\ncommunity in Tucson that is seeing fewer guests released to transitional\nshelters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to motivate enough people to action to end\nthis policy, a parallel educational effort has to be carried out explaining\nwhat MPP actually entails, and why it is harmful. To this end, the coalition in\nTucson is simultaneously focused on holding monthly rallies to continue\neducating the wider community and on strategizing around legislative advocacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, there is very little community\naccountability or transparency within ICE and the Border Patrol, meaning that\nit is next to impossible to get clear and accurate information about\nimplementation. This lack of information makes it harder to educate the public\nabout who is being impacted by Remain in Mexico. In Tucson, over the last three\nmonths during which Remain in Mexico has been in effect, humanitarian aid\ngroups have worked to collect anecdotal evidence from those impacted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a protest on Jan. 31, just after the one-year\nanniversary of this policy, community members read testimonies<\/a>\nfrom people returned to Nogales under MPP. There is some evidence that people\nseeking asylum have been returned from Tucson to Juarez and Nogales, or held in\nfamily detention centers in Texas. Shelters in Tucson stand empty, with no word\nfrom ICE of what has happened or if another change can be expected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With people impacted by Remain in Mexico\ngeographically removed from the people who could make an impact in changing\nthat policy, organizing group illuminate the policy\u2019s harm from afar is an\nadditional challenge. It is undeniable that the images of \u201ckids in cages\u201d \u2014 and\ntheir grieving parents \u2014 provoked empathy and fueled the public outrage that\nended family separation as an official policy. Photos of the MPP camp in\nMatamoros do exist, but without more context, images of people living in tents\nmay not be as shocking to the viewer or provoke action.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Many asylum seekers wait for months just yards from the United States.” (WNV\/April Wong)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Seeing a photo of a group of people returned to\nNogales through Remain in Mexico, for example, does not truly illustrate the\nrisk those people face. The true danger of Remain in Mexico is invisible.\nRemain in Mexico intentionally takes advantage of the \u201cout of sight, out of\nmind\u201d phenomenon, removing people seeking asylum from our spheres of attention.\nAny images of those suffering under MPP just do not communicate the true danger\nof the policy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is an underlying tension here, too, of wanting\nto both lift up and spread word of the harm being done by MPP without\nobjectifying people who are experiencing this harm. Parents and children\nseparated at our southern border may or may not have consented to being\nphotographed, or to having those photographs shared. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another border coalition tried to work around this\nchallenge, using the image of shoelaces as a work-around. Border Patrol returns\nmigrants to Mexico without their shoelaces (confiscated in detention centers),\nand this lack of shoelaces becomes a tell-tale sign for organized crime that\nthat person is new in town, without connections and vulnerable. But even this\nevocative image necessitates explanation for it to land with the right\nemotional (and motivating) weight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the coalition forming against MPP in Tucson, a\nmajority of participants are employed by or consistently volunteer with migrant\nhumanitarian aid groups. Within this group, these members know the most about\nwhat Remain in Mexico looks like on the ground. They have the strongest\nconnections with impacted persons and what is often the strongest emotional\nmotivation to organize. They are also the most overwhelmed, overloaded and\nburned out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, it\u2019s not just protest organizers who are\nburned out. The people who show up to MPP protests in Tucson are also coming\nout to protests and events for many other issues. Activating people on yet\nanother awful policy in a sea of awful policies \u2014 particularly one that is\ncomplicated, far away and with obscured impacts \u2014 is a challenge. It is easy to\nlose interest and momentum around a single issue when there is so much going\non. Joanna Williams, of the Kino Border Initiative, a binational Catholic\norganization that provides humanitarian assistance to migrants and\nasylum-seekers, explicitly spoke to this issue at the Tucson protest in\nDecember. \u201cWhen we protested against family separation, family separation\nended,” she told the crowd. “We must not tire of protesting now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At its core, the movement to end Remain in Mexico is about saving the asylum process and keeping people safe. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The implementation of this policy also changes\nfrequently. When Remain in Mexico began in the Tucson sector, people seeking\nasylum were bussed to Juarez after being processed. The first protest against the\npolicy focused on this point. Protesters’ signs bore messages like \u201cNo buses to\nJuarez.\u201d By the time the second protest took place, on Dec.16, implementation\nhad shifted to returning people processed in Tucson to Nogales. In response,\nprotest slogans shifted to \u201cSave Asylum\u201d and \u201cThere is Room at the Inn.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As implementation of MPP continues to change, and new\npolicies emerge to further limit access to asylum, it becomes ever more\ncritical for organizers to focus on the key message. At its core, the movement\nto end Remain in Mexico is about saving the asylum process and keeping people\nsafe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remain in Mexico is unnecessary from any angle but the\none that seeks hardship for asylum seekers. The policy is a humanitarian,\nlegal, and moral crisis. The United States is sending people back to conditions\nof near-certain danger, and without a widespread public response, the crisis is\nalmost certain to worsen. While MPP is only one piece of a broader governmental\nstrategy against asylum that continues to grow, it requires a sustained\nresponse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organizing in Tucson continues; the next rally was\nscheduled for March 13, but was canceled due to coronavirus concerns. Social\ndistancing and the cancellation of events has caused a shift toward planning\nfor digital advocacy instead. A call-in campaign to Arizona congressional\nrepresentatives and ever-widening educational efforts continue online as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creativity and stories gifted by those impacted are the\nbiggest assets the group has \u2014 and it will take both to widen the circle of\norganizers and focus sustained national attention on saving asylum. This crisis\nis ongoing, and organizers are working hard to adjust in response to the\nshifting target created by a government that seems determined to kill asylum\nentirely.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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