Federal Judge Says Can’t End Remain In Mexico Immigration Policy

A Federal Judge in Texas, has put On-Hold for now, the Biden Administration’s most recent attempt to End the so-called “Remain in Mexico” Program.

U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, is pausing the Termination of the Program, that was outlined in an October 2021 Policy Memo, while Litigation around that Memo continues.

The Ruling marks a Setback in President Biden’s effort to End the Controversial Trump-era Policy, which sends certain Non-Mexican Citizens who entered the U.S. back to Mexico, instead of Detaining them or Releasing them into the U.S., while their Immigration Proceedings played out.

The Program, formally known as Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), is separate from Title 42, which is set to end next week. That Authority, which was heavily criticized by Public Health Experts and Immigrant Advocates, has largely barred Asylum at the U.S.-Mexico Border.

In June, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4, the Biden Administration had the Discretion to End the Program, Rejecting Arguments from Republican States, that Immigration Law required the Program to Remain-in-Effect and Granting an Initial Victory for the Biden Immigration Agenda, in its efforts to Reverse Trump’s Hardline Immigration Policies.

But the Supreme Court sent the Case back to Kacsmaryk, to consider whether the Roll-Out of October 2021 Memo, complied with the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), which requires that Agencies take certain Procedural steps when Implementing Policy, in how it went about unwinding MPP.

The Program, which was First implemented in 2019 under Trump, has been Criticized by Immigrant-Rights Advocates, who argue that it’s Inhumane and that it exposes Asylum Seekers with Credible Claims to Dangerous and Squalid conditions in Mexico.

Before the Trump Administration put the “Remain in Mexico” Program in place, No other Administration had embraced such an approach toward Non-Mexican Asylum-S,eekers that required them to Stay in Mexico, over the course of their Immigration Court Proceedings in the U.S. Biden Campaigned on Ending the Policy and has said it “goes against everything we stand for as a nation of immigrants.”

Biden has grappled with a growing number of Border Crossings over the course of his Administration, amid Mass Migration in the Western Hemisphere.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) though, has maintained that the “Remain in Mexico” Policy comes at a steep Human Cost and is Not an Effective use of Resources.










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