Asylum-Seekers Await Court Decision on ‘Remain in Mexico’
The Supreme Court was scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday in the Biden administration’s appeal of lower-court rulings that required immigration officials to reinstate the “Remain in Mexico” policy that the administration “has twice determined is not in the interests of the United States."
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The Supreme Court was scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday in the Biden administration’s appeal of lower-court rulings that required immigration officials to reinstate the “Remain in Mexico” policy that the administration “has twice determined is not in the interests of the United States,” reports the Associated Press. The program resumed in December, 2021, after President Biden suspended it on his first day in office and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas ended it in June 2021.
Texas and Missouri, which sued to keep the program in place, argue the policy has helped reduce the flow of people into the U.S. at the southern border. But barely 3,000 migrants had enrolled by the end of March, during a period when authorities stopped migrants about 700,000 times at the border. The legal fight centers around whether the program is discretionary and can be ended, as the administration argues, or is essentially the only way to comply with what the states say is a congressional command not to release the immigrants into the United States.
