Supreme Court Says Biden Can End ‘Shameful’ Remain in Mexico Asylum Policy
Immigrant rights advocates on Thursday welcomed the U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection of a challenge to the Biden administration’s move to end a Trump-era program under which asylum-seekers arriving at the southwestern border are forced to remain in Mexico while their cases are decided.
In a 5-4 decision—in which right-wing Justices Brett Kavanaugh and John Roberts joined their liberal colleagues—the court in Biden v. Texas ruled that the Biden administration can end the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), commonly known as “Remain in Mexico.”
However, the justices are also sending the case back to a lower court, which will rule on the Biden administration’s attempts to end the MPP program.
The administration announced it was ending MPP earlier this month. However, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit rejected the plan after Texas and Missouri sued to block the move.
“We’re not done winning. And we’re ready to demand a future where children are not ripped from their parents, lives are not lost at our border, and all of us are safe, not stranded,” the advocacy group Families Belong Together tweeted in response to the ruling.
“Biden campaigned on repealing Remain in Mexico and the American people elected him to turn the page on Trump’s cruelty,” Families Belong Together added. “[The] president did the right thing when he moved to end Remain in Mexico and now his administration can finally follow through on the will of the American people.”
Fernando García, executive director of the Border Network for Human Rights, said that “this is a bittersweet victory after so many lives have been lost to atrocious immigration deterrence policies.”
“This decision was long overdue, and it is shocking that the Supreme Court waited until today to determine the danger that migrants have been subjected to since Trump enacted this deadly policy,” he continued.
Title 42, a provision of the Public Health Safety Act first invoked by the Trump administration as the coronavirus pandemic began in March 2020, has been used to remove more than one million asylum-seekers—the majority of them during the tenure of President Joe Biden.
Originally published at Commondreams.org, written by Brett Wilkins.
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