Amnesty leaders condemn US's Remain in Mexico policy as 'disgrace'

Leaders from US, UK, Kenya, Mexico, Greece and Canada said immigration program manufactured a crisis at border

Amnesty International leaders from around the world on Friday decried the US policy of sending asylum-seekers back to dangerous Mexican border towns to wait for their immigration cases as an "international disgrace" that must be ended.

During a visit to the US-Mexico border this week, Amnesty International leaders from the US, UK, Kenya, Mexico, Greece and Canada said the Remain in Mexico, or Migration Protection Protocols (MPP), program had manufactured a crisis at the border by sending more than 50,000 people to Mexico.