Biden last month ordered a pause on adding new asylum seekers to the program but has not ended it for those already waiting in Mexico. The group of 25 asylum seekers discreetly entered the San Ysidro Port of Entry Friday morning unnoticed by journalists gathered on the south side of the border. Nor were they noticed by hundreds of other asylum seekers in the plaza outside the port of entry hoping to gain refuge north of the border. The 25 asylum seekers went Thursday to the Centro Integrador migrant shelter in Tijuana to be tested for the coronavirus by the U.N. International Organization for Migration. Human Rights First has documented more than 1,500 accounts of MPP asylum seekers being attacked in Mexico.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 20, 2021 02:12 UTC