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Jan 29, 2020, 6 tweets

One year later, Remain in Mexico has proven every bit as cruel and catastrophic as we feared. 🧵

#RestoreAsylumNow #EndMPP #SaveAsylum

Since January 2019, nearly 60,000 people have been forcibly returned to Mexico under the program, including thousands of families and young children.

#RestoreAsylumNow #EndMPP #SaveAsylum

There have been 816 documented cases of murder, sexual assault, extortion, kidnapping, and other serious violence perpetrated against people entered in the program.

#RestoreAsylumNow #EndMPP #SaveAsylum

Asylum-seekers are easy targets for cartels, who routinely kidnap and torture them while methodically ticking through their phone contacts to extort U.S.-based family members.

#RestoreAsylumNow #EndMPP #SaveAsylum

The program has demolished due process, purposely keeping asylum-seekers far from the legal help they desperately need.

#RestoreAsylumNow #EndMPP #SaveAsylum

Fewer than 5% of returnees currently have counsel, even though their proceedings are often a matter of life or death.

#RestoreAsylumNow #EndMPP #SaveAsylum

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