Friend,

January 20 marks one year since President Biden took office promising to build a fair, safe, and humane immigration system. Instead, the Biden administration has continued or expanded some of the most harmful policies preventing people from seeking asylum at the southern US border. 

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been caring for people on the move along migration routes through Central America and Mexico since 2012, and we’ve seen how these broken promises are putting people’s lives and health at risk. 

Over the past year, the Biden administration has carried out close to one million expulsions under Title 42, which exploits the COVID-19 pandemic to effectively close the southern US border to asylum seekers, including tens of thousands of vulnerable people turned away without due process. And following its reinstatement of the so-called Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) in December, the administration has already started sending asylum seekers to dangerous areas of Mexico to await their asylum hearings.

Friend, do you believe that the United States should end these harmful rules and adopt a more humane migration policy?



From January 2020 through September 2021, MSF teams cared for nearly 12,700 people in the cities of Reynosa and Matamoros at the US–Mexico border. Our teams can attest to the dangers asylum seekers have faced in Mexico, their exposure to violence and trauma, and their lack of access to basic services and needed shelter.

Friend, our teams on the ground are doing all they can to provide medical and mental health care, clean water, and migration counseling, but it's not enough. We need to raise our collective voice to call for these harmful policies to be rescinded. MSF is demanding that the Biden administration take action immediately to address the humanitarian emergency at the border and uphold its commitment to asylum seekers and migrants.

Do you share MSF’s belief that the US should end harmful policies impacting asylum seekers? If so, take a moment to learn more about this important issue.

Thank you,

Avril Benoît
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)