Supreme Court upholds Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy
U.S. Supreme Court reverses a Biden administration decision to do away with the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy.
The U.S. Supreme Court has reversed a Biden administration mandate that did away with former president Donald Trump’s so-called “Remain in Mexico” policy.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court denied a Department of Justice petition for an emergency stay on the Biden administration revocation of the Trump policy, forcing them to reinstate the “Migrant Protection Protocols,” which President Joe Biden attempted to revoke through executive order during his first week in office in January.
“The Supreme Court on Tuesday said the Biden administration likely violated federal law in trying to end a Trump-era program that forces people to wait in Mexico while seeking asylum in the U.S.,” the Associated Press reported. The Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision ruling against the Biden administration.
“A federal judge in Texas had previously ordered that the program be reinstated last week. Both he and the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused the administration’s request to put the ruling on hold,” the publication added. “Justice Samuel Alito ordered a brief delay to allow the full court time to consider the administration’s appeal to keep the ruling on hold while the case continues to make its way through the courts.”
The “Remain in Mexico” policy forces migrants seeking asylum in the United States to remain in Mexico until their case can be heard by an immigration court. The Biden administration’s reversal of the policy prompted a massive surge of migrants into the United States, where — once released by Customs and Border Protection — could simply wait for their day in court while living in the United States.
Without the Trump “Stay in Mexico” policy, immigration officials reverted to a much more lenient policy of catching and releasing illegal aliens, which created a risk that the migrants would never go to an immigration court or processing facility for their paperwork. Under former president Obama, the policy was known as “catch-and-release.”
As of July, the Biden administration reportedly released some 50,000 illegal immigrants since March — many without court dates, according to Axios. The publication reported that only 13 per cent of them appeared to the ICE officials they were scheduled to meet. When Rebel News reported in March on photos that showed overcrowding at Biden’s border detention facilities, the facility at the Rio Grande Valley Sector reportedly began to release illegal aliens without scheduled court dates.
The Daily Wire reports:
The end of “Remain in Mexico” is often cited as one of the primary reasons for the massive uptick in illegal immigrant encounters along the southern border. Without the threat of staying south of the U.S.-Mexico border until an asylum claim can be processed, many migrants who may have held off under the Trump administration are presenting themselves at the border under Biden. As a result, United States Customs and Border Protection encountered more than a million illegal immigrants at the southern border in the first half of 2021.
In July, the migrant surge escalated to unprecedented levels and became the worst month for border patrol encounters since the Department of Homeland Security began tracking the number since 2001.
The Associated Press reports that the court’s six-person majority cited its own opinion from last year when it rejected the Trump administration’s effort to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals program through an executive order. At the time, the court said that the Trump administration’s efforts were “arbitrary and capricious.” The Biden administration, likewise, had “failed to show a likelihood of success on the claim that the memorandum rescinding the Migrant Protection Protocols was not arbitrary and capricious.”
2024 Student Journalism Conference
Applications are now open for The Democracy Fund's third annual Student Journalism Conference. This is a one-of-a-kind, all-expenses-paid opportunity for young aspiring journalists in Canada!
TDF Student Journalism Conference 2024Don't Get Censored
Big Tech is censoring us. Sign up so we can always stay in touch.
Don't Get Censored
Big Tech is censoring us. Sign up so we can always stay in touch.