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(NewsNation) — Less than a week earlier President-elect Donald Trump is acceptable to participate the White House for his 2nd non-consecutive term, legislature lawmakers are hosting a proceeding astir his controversial 'Remain successful Mexico' immigration policy.
During his archetypal term, Trump implemented the policy, besides called "Migration Protection Protocols," which required asylum seekers to enactment successful Mexico until their claims were processed. Democratic President Joe Biden's administration ended it successful 2022.
In the 2024 election, Trump said he plans to reinstate 'Remain successful Mexico,' and commencement different hard-line migration measures specified arsenic wide deportations.
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, the Republican seat of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, besides said helium volition instantly instrumentality up the matter.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee proceeding is acceptable to commencement astatine 9 a.m. ET.
Those testifying see Kenneth Cuccinelli, a erstwhile elder authoritative successful the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Andrew Arthur, a nonmigratory chap successful instrumentality and argumentation astatine the Center for Immigration Studies and Adam Isacson, manager of defence oversight for The Washington Office connected Latin America.
Lutheran Social Services, an migration alleviation and exile invited agency, successful a connection up of the hearing, criticized 'Remain successful Mexico' arsenic a stark departure from longstanding U.S. asylum procedures and protections.
When it was successful effect, "families and individuals faced unsafe and unsafe conditions, including violence, exploitation, and inadequate indispensable services similar healthcare, education, and housing" successful bluish Mexico, Lutheran Social Services said.
The American Civil Liberties Union challenged 'Remain successful Mexico,' saying it near "vulnerable asylum seekers stranded."
"The Migration Protection Protocols (MPP) argumentation was 1 of the astir abusive and egregious of President Trump’s attacks connected the asylum system, exposing susceptible radical to unit and murder," the ACLU said successful a connection to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. "The argumentation was a boon to organized transgression successful Mexico and inflicted horrendous and lasting harm connected asylum seekers, including their insignificant children."
NewsNation integer shaper Ashley Soriano contributed to this report.
