Let’s End the Migrant Protection Protocols Now – EN

Avril Benoît, Executive Director of MSF–USA, addresses the Migrant Protection Protocols.

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Let’s End the Migrant Protection Protocols Now – ES

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No Way Out Report

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Date taken / Date Recorded 10/02/2020 12:00 AM

Country Mexico

Commissioning section MSF-UNITED STATES

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The US is punishing people for following the rules.
Asylum seekers are coming to the United States southern border asking for protection. But the US is turning them away—sending them to extremely dangerous parts of Mexico to wait months and months for a hearing.
We're calling for an end to this cruel and inhumane migration policy.

Many of these people left Central America because their lives are in danger. We know this because we’ve treated thousands of patients in El Salvador, Honduras, and Mexico. We’ve heard their shocking accounts of kidnapping, forced gang recruitment, extortion, rape, and murder.

The so-called Migrant Protection Protocols offer no protection at all. They send asylum seekers back into harm’s way, to the borderlands of Mexico. Or to some of the same Central American countries from which people are fleeing.

Our message is simple. Let’s treat migrants and asylum seekers like human beings first. It’s time to end MPP now.