Bordering on insane
New Biden bid to nix 'Remain in Mexico'
Despite the recent surge that saw as many as 30,000 mostly Haitian immigrants flood across the southern border, the Biden administration is going to take another crack at ending ex-President Donald Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy after a federal judge and the Supreme Court allowed it to remain in effect.
The Department of Homeland Security released a statement Wednesday evening announcing its intent to issue a memorandum scuttling the policy known formally as the Migrant Protection Protocols, which calls for migrants seeking asylum in the US to wait south of the border until their hearings.
A federal judge in Texas ruled that DHS’s effort to end the program violated the law and issued an injunction to stop the White House from ending it.
The Supreme Court last month turned down the administration’s request to block the judge’s order.
“A new memorandum terminating MPP will not take effect until the current injunction is lifted by court order. In issuing a new memorandum terminating MPP, the department intends to address the concerns raised by the courts with respect to the prior memorandum,” DHS said in the statement.
“In the meantime, while the court injunction remains in effect, the department has been working in good faith to restart MPP in compliance with the order, and it will continue to do so.”
DHS also said it and the State Department are involved in “high-level diplomatic discussions” about the policy.
President Biden rolled back several of Trump’s immigration policies in the early days of his administration.
The Republican attorneys general of Texas and Missouri sued.
Since rolling back the policies, the Biden administration has scrambled to curb the record-smashing influx of illegal immigrants at the border.
Last month, in one instance, more than 14,000 Haitian migrants traveled to the US border, walked into the country unobstructed, and camped out under an international bridge in Del Rio, Texas, for more than a week as they waited to be processed.
The administration deported some of them to Haiti, but DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas admitted on Sunday that more than 12,000 have been released in the US. Some have estimated the number to be 17,000.