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SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden admin­is­tra­tion on Fri­day announced plans for tens of thou­sands of peo­ple who are seek­ing asy­lum and have been forced to wait in Mex­i­co under a Trump-era pol­i­cy to be allowed into the U.S. while their cas­es wind through immi­gra­tion courts.

The first wave of an esti­mat­ed 25,000 asy­lum-seek­ers with active cas­es in the “Remain in Mex­i­co” pro­gram will be allowed into the Unit­ed States on Feb. 19, author­i­ties said. They plan to start slow­ly, with two bor­der cross­ings each pro­cess­ing up to 300 peo­ple a day and a third cross­ing tak­ing few­er numbers.

Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s admin­is­tra­tion declined to pub­licly iden­ti­fy the three cross­ings out of fear it may encour­age a rush of peo­ple, but U.S. Rep. Hen­ry Cuel­lar, a Texas Demo­c­rat, said offi­cials told him that they are Brownsville and El Paso in Texas, and San Diego’s San Ysidro crossing.

The move is a major step toward dis­man­tling one of for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s most con­se­quen­tial poli­cies to deter asy­lum-seek­ers from com­ing to the U.S. About 70,000 asy­lum-seek­ers were enrolled in the pro­gram offi­cial­ly called Migrant Pro­tec­tion Pro­to­cols since it was intro­duced in Jan­u­ary 2019.