U.S. expands effort to allow in vulnerable migrants at Mexico border

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Reuters

By Kristina Cooke, Mica Rosenberg and Ted Hesson SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The United States has begun rolling out a new system to identify and admit the most vulnerable migrants at ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to three people briefed on the matter. The new system, which started at the port of entry in El Paso, Texas, this week, creates a more formal process that allows pre-screened asylum seekers to enter the United States on humanitarian grounds, despite a broad policy of expulsions at the border. The expulsion policy was put in place under former Republican Preside…

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