US Launches Plan for Asylum Seekers to Wait in Mexico

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SAN DIEGO—The Trump administration on Jan. 29, launched an effort to make asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. immigration courts.

The effort, called the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), is an attempt to rein in meritless asylum claims and stop thousands of illegal immigrants from being released into the country, never to be seen again.