Amnesty leaders condemn US's Remain in Mexico policy as 'disgrace'

[Judi Lynn]

Leaders from US, UK, Kenya, Mexico, Greece and Canada said immigration program manufactured a crisis at border

Amanda Holpuch in New York

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Fri 25 Oct 2019 16.13 EDT

Amnesty International leaders from around the world on Friday decried the US policy of sending asylum-seekers back to dangerous Mexican border towns to wait for their immigration cases as an “international disgrace” that must be ended.

During a visit to the US-Mexico border this week, Amnesty International leaders from the US, UK, Kenya, Mexico, Greece and Canada said the Remain in Mexico, or Migration Protection Protocols (MPP), program had manufactured a crisis at the border by sending more than 50,000 people to Mexico.

The asylum seekers, mostly families from Central America, are waiting in some of the most dangerous cities in the world, where they must fend for themselves without healthcare, work opportunities or school for their children.

“The Remain in Mexico policy is nothing short of an international disgrace, rather than calling it a migration protection policy this is really a migrant rejection policy,” said Irungu Houghton, the executive director of Amnesty International Kenya. “It is incompetent, it is inhumane, and it is a cruel way of dealing with people who are fleeing for their lives.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/25/amnesty-international-us-immigration-mexico-international-disgrace