Migrants who sought asylum in the U.S. under the Trump administration and were placed under a policy that forced them to wait in Mexico for their cases to be completed will soon be reprocessed at three ports of entry, including one in the Rio Grande Valley, according to a federal source with knowledge of the directive.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection was made aware of the changes by the Department of Justice, a governmental branch that manages the Executive Office for Immigration Review. 

Nearly 25,000 migrants are enrolled into the program, according to government estimates. Federal officers anticipate starting to reprocess applicants as soon as next Friday, according to the federal source. They will then be released to nongovernmental organizations that assist in coordinating travel plans. 

Those who are under the program are currently across four Mexican cities: Matamoros, Tamaulipas; Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas; Juarez, Chihuahua; and Tijuana, Baja California. 

Only three ports of entry will be processing between 100-300 people a day: Brownsville, Paso del Norte in El Paso and San Ysidro in California. 

The news was first reported by Buzzfeed’s Hamed Aleaziz who examined thorough plans for the processing. According to Aleaziz, those who were placed in the program first are believed to receive priority in the queue.


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