A federal judge in Texas paused the Biden administration’s attempt to end the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” program, which requires some non-Mexican asylum seekers to be sent back to that country to await immigration proceedings.
that Biden had the right to end the program, but it sent the case to Kacsmaryk’s court in Amarillo, to determine whether the October 2021 memo that outlined how the policy would be dismantled complied with administrative laws.
The judge, who was appointed by former president Donald Trump, wrote that the memo did not consider the policy’s “deterrent effect on illegal border crossings and the reduction of unmeritorious asylum claims,” and said it prioritized dangers in Mexico over dangers of crossing the border “in the first instance.”
Kacsmaryk also wrote that the federal government appeared to have terminated the policy in an “arbitrary and capricious way,” and that the DHS had not adequately assessed the costs to states affected by increases in immigration. A DHS spokesperson told The Washington Post that the agency disagrees with the decision and is evaluating next steps.for needlessly endangering asylum seekers, who risked being preyed on by gangs and kidnappers. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas had written in the October 2021 memo that while MPP reduced migratory flows, “it did so by imposing substantial and unjustifiable human costs on the individuals who were exposed to harm while waiting in Mexico.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his Missouri counterpart, Eric Schmitt, celebrated the stay on Thursday evening. “The Admin played games all the way to SCOTUS, but tonight Texas & USA WINS,” PaxtonDuring the Trump years, MPP was used to
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