Posted on 09/06/2021 3:28:07 PM PDT by Libloather
The Biden administration is debating restarting what it describes as a more humane version of a controversial Trump-era program for asylum seekers.
The new proposal - what some have dubbed “Remain in Mexico lite” - would require a small number of asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for their cases to be processed but give them better living conditions and access to attorneys, according to three people familiar with the discussions.
The administration is starting talks with Mexico in a bid to strike a balance between abiding by a federal court order and making good on the president’s campaign promises. A federal judge ruled last month that President Joe Biden’s attempt to end the program - a pledge he made on the campaign trail - violated the law.
The possibility of resuming Migrant Protection Protocols or MPP - one of former President Donald Trump’s most contentious immigration policies - even while trying to soften it, has angered advocates who expected Biden to offer a more welcoming system for migrants.
“One of his campaign promises was to end MPP. He did that. He should stand by that,” said Marielena Hincapié, executive director of National Immigration Law Center. “The answer is not to simply find a gentler, kinder MPP 2.0. That completely flies in the face of his promise.”
Ever since the Supreme Court rejected the administration's request to keep the program inactive while efforts to end it continued in a lower court, immigration attorneys and activists have been lobbying the Department of Homeland Security to issue a new memo to try to end the program, according to the people.
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The Trump agreement has the force of law. The Supreme Court said so.
Sounds like the plan is to give the wetbacks USG paid lawyers to break into the country “legally.” What a scam. We’ll cover their room and board in Mexico, too.
but give them better living conditions and access to attorneys
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So... more taxpayer money to entice them to stick around till the dems can get them in our country by hook or crook.
Talibiden underground slave trader railroad .
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Tell Mexico to build a wall on their southern border.
The fiasco in Afghanistan showed us just how good the “lite” version is.
C’mon, man. A few tweaks and he can make the policy his own. Like the Afghan withdrawal.
in a bid to strike a balance between abiding by a federal court order and making good on the president’s campaign promises
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Don’t court ORDERS mean anything anymore?
You don’t get to negotiate.
Joe’s version will probably be “ Remain in Wilmington.”
No not in Mexico, the lite version is to give them hotel rooms at South of the Border.
Biden isn’t ‘mulling’ anything except what kine of cone to get with his ice cream.
Mexico was happy with this, because most of these people were not Mexicans but were from Central America …or from Africa, China or the ME.
This policy paid Mexico to hold them and sort them out, and stopping them was another stupid Biden/Dem policy.
Biden’s incapable of mulling. Or much of anything else for that matter.
You do unless the court grows a set and starts holding the DHS in contempt.
He’s a “lite” version of a president, so…makes sense.
Biden mulls nothing more than an ice cream cone.
Susan Rice on the other hand might be.
I want to know why Abbott isn’t throwing out the people he has here now?
Yeah, Biden is, right.
They put the various things they want signed on his desk while he's playing with the Rubik's cube or shape sorter box.
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