‘Remain in Mexico’ restarts in El Paso ahead of other parts of southwest border

EL PASO, Texas — The migrant protection protocol, or “Remain in Mexico” policy, was reinstated Monday at El Paso’s ports of entry and will spread to other areas of the southwest border in the coming days.

There will be a limit of 30 people enrolled in MPP per day in El Paso. 

“Mexico has required several humanitarian improvements as a condition of agreeing to accept MPP enrollees. These are improvements that we agree with and will be making, starting with El Paso where MPP implementation will begin today,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in an official statement. 

CBP said they would continue to expel all covered non-citizens under Title 42 as long as that health order involving Covid-19 remains in effect.