“‘We Are So Happy’: Migrants Stranded by Trump Are Finally Entering the US.”

Austin Kocher, research assistant professor in the Newhouse School with the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), was quoted in the Vice story “‘We Are So Happy’: Migrants Stranded by Trump Are Finally Entering the US.” Kocher, who researches U.S. immigration, comments on the end of the controversial MPP policy, which began under former president Donald Trump. He has tracked MPP cases with TRAC, and says that while “some people with pending cases may have given up after waiting for their hearing or due to violence in northern Mexico, it remains a legal and moral imperative that the U.S. government abide by national and international refugee law and provide these individuals with an opportunity to request asylum.”