Thread by @humanrights1st

#NEW: Today, @humanrights1st & @NILC filed an amicus brief at the Supreme Court in a case challenging the so-called Migrant Protection Protocols (“MPP”), or “Remain in Mexico” policy.

humanrightsfirst.org/resource/amicu…

The amicus brief, which was filed in the case of Wolf v. Innovation Law Lab, illustrates the horrific harm inflicted on people subjected to MPP.

108 NGOs and law school clinics that serve and defend the rights of asylum seekers signed the brief.

humanrightsfirst.org/resource/amicu…

“Every day this dangerous, illegal policy remains in place, the US govt is putting more lives at risk.” -@KennjiKizuka

We have tracked at least 1,314 public reports of murder, torture, rape, kidnapping & other violent attacks against people returned to Mexico under MPP to date.

The brief includes the experiences of people returned to harm in Mexico due to MPP, including:

A Cuban woman who was sent to Mexico under MPP had been kidnapped and gang-raped there. Her kidnappers told her that “this is what we do to Cubans here.”

A Salvadoran asylum seeker who was kidnapped, stabbed to death, and dismembered after U.S. border officials used MPP to expel him and his family to Tijuana.

Over the course of the previous 7 months, he repeatedly told U.S. officials they were not safe in Tijuana—to no avail.

A nine-year-old South American disabled girl and her mother who were kidnapped, raped, and brutalized, even though the girl should have been exempt from MPP due to her disability.

On Wednesday, DHS suspended new enrollments in MPP.

This is an important first step - but there is much work to be done to dismantle MPP and ensure refugee protections cannot be stripped by future administrations.

Learn more: humanrightsfirst.org/resource/human…

For more information, read our press release:

humanrightsfirst.org/press-release/…