Court to weigh in on asylum-seekers made to wait in Mexico

The Associated Press ^ | February 18, 2022 | By MARK SHERMAN

[Oldeconomybuyer]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is giving the Biden administration a quick hearing on its effort to scrap a Trump-era border policy that makes asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court.

The justices agreed Friday to hear the administration’s appeal of lower court rulings that forced it to reinstate the “Remain in Mexico” policy that former President Donald Trump introduced in 2019. Arguments will take place in April, with a decision expected by late June.

President Joe Biden suspended the program, formally called Migrant Protection Protocols, on his first day in office and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas ended it in June 2021.

But after the Republican-led states of Missouri and Texas sued over Biden’s action, a federal judge ordered the policy put back in place, and a three-judge appeals court panel agreed. The district judge and two of the three appellate judges are Trump appointees.

Mayorkas has acknowledged that the “Remain in Mexico” policy likely contributed to a drop in illegal border crossings in 2019, but said the reduction came with “substantial and unjustifiable human costs” to asylum-seekers who were exposed to violence while waiting in Mexico.

[BenLurkin]

Let them have “asylum” in Mexico!

[SuperLuminal]

This nonsense has to stop!
BAMN!

[fruser1]

Let them stay at the judge’s house and on his dime.

[Sacajaweau]

This already went through the courts. What are they trying to pull now?

[elpadre]

I thought the “remain in Mexico” plan had already been tested in court and judged to be OK.

[antidemoncrat]

Heck it doesn/t matter what the Supreme Court rules. Biden will just ignore any ruling that goes against him.

[abbastanza]

Go to court until you find a judge who gives you the answer you want. They’re spending our tax dollars so it makes no difference to them.