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  • a group of 25 asylum seekers cross the border from Mexico into the United States on Friday.

  • They're the first to benefit from the Biden administrations Roll back off one of former President Donald Trump's miss restrictive immigration policies.

  • Trump's policy, known as the migrant protection protocols, forced thousands of Central American migrants toe weight in Mexico for months while their asylum applications were heard in immigration courts.

  • Most returned home but some state in Mexico living in sometimes squalid conditions vulnerable to kidnapping and other violence.

  • Now they'll be allowed into the US to wait for their cases to be heard.

  • Guatemalan migrant Juliana Ramirez e have been waiting here for more than a year, so I'm very happy my son was born here in Seattle, Juarez.

  • On the campaign trail, US President Joe Biden pledged to immediately rescind Trump's policy.

  • The U.

  • S government has also expressed interest in funding flights that would bring back certain people who were blocked by Trump's measures.

  • The United Nations launched a website on Friday that allows migrants with active cases to register remotely to be processed that the US Mexico border.

  • Hundreds of people signed up hours after the website went live.

  • The U.

  • S.

  • State Department says in the coming week, two additional ports of entry in Texas will be added.

  • It's hoped that 300 people a day will eventually be able to be processed at two of the ports, U.

  • N.

  • Representative Mark Manly.

  • So we're asking people to not go to the border to use these two virtual modalities Thio register so that they could be queued up and then be able to cross the border in an orderly fashion.

  • On day one of taking office in January, Biden began overturning Trump's hardline immigration policies.

  • He lifted a travel ban on 13 mostly Muslim majority in African countries on halted the construction of the US Mexico border wall.

a group of 25 asylum seekers cross the border from Mexico into the United States on Friday.

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