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The Supreme Court will hear the Biden administration’s appeal in its efforts to end the “Remain-in-Mexico” policy — a key Trump-era border policy that the Biden administration abolished, but was then forced to re-establish under court order.
Oral arguments in the appeal will begin in the second week of April and a ruling will be expected by late June on whether the Biden administration can end the policy, which sees migrants sent back to Mexico for their immigration hearings instead of being released into the U.S. interior.
HAGERTY SEEKS GAO OPINION ON BIDEN EFFORT TO END ‘REMAIN-IN-MEXICO,’ OPENING DOOR FOR CONGRESS TO BLOCK
The program, established in 2019 and later expanded amid that year’s border crisis, was a central plank of the Trump administration’s efforts to end the “pull factors” bringing migrants north. Supporters said the program, which saw the building of court tents in places along the border, restored order to the asylum process and disincentivized illegal immigration. Critics said the program was cruel and led to migrants being put in danger of violence and kidnapping as they camped out in Mexico.
The Biden administration moved to unravel the policy after entering office, but a federal court found that it had done so unlawfully and ordered it restored. That ruling was later upheld by the Supreme Court and the program was restarted in December. It has since been expanded in January to include the Rio Grande Valley Sector.
BIDEN ADMIN EXPANDS TRUMP-ERA ‘REMAIN IN MEXICO’ TO RIO GRANDE VALLEY SECTOR, CITING COURT ORDER
While the administration has since been reluctantly re-establishing the program in line with the order, it has also issued a memo in October seeking to end the program lawfully after conducting the required analysis.
BIDEN ADMIN ENROLLED FEWER THAN 300 MIGRANTS IN ‘REMAIN IN MEXICO’ IN DECEMBER
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in the October memo that MPP…
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