U.S. begins returning migrants to Mexican border city under rebooted Trump-era policy

FILE PHOTO: A migrant boy, who returned to Mexico with his parents from the U.S. under the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) to wait for their court hearing for asylum seekers, plays at a migrant shelter run by the federal government in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico September 26, 2019. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez/File Photo

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday began returning migrants to the Mexican city of Tijuana in an restart of a Trump-era program that forces asylum seekers to wait for U.S. court hearings in Mexico, Mexican authorities and the U.N. migration agency said.

The United States and Mexico last month agreed to relaunch the controversial scheme known as Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), in keeping with a U.S. federal court order.