The Biden administration stopped enrolling new asylum seekers into the Trump-era program in August.
Two weeks after a federal judge allowed the Biden administration to end the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols, U.S. judges are beginning to allow migrants to stay in the country as their asylum claims are pending.
In a 5-4 ruling, the justices announced Thursday morning that the Migrant Protection Protocols policy, better known “remain in Mexico,” can end under the Biden Administration.
The Trump administration created the Migrant Protection Protocols, also called “remain in Mexico,” in 2019 before the Biden administration canceled it in 2021. The ruling sends the case back to a Texas federal court.
The Biden administration had ended the policy that forced 70,000 migrants to wait in Mexico. But a federal judge in Texas forced the administration to restart the program in December.
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Cuban asylum seeker Joel Fernandez Cabrera outside the migrant camp in Matamoros, Mexico, on Feb. 24. About 2,200 of those migrants have been admitted so far, including almost everyone from the Matamoros camp, according to the U.N. “The Matamoros camp became a visible symbol of a much larger problem,” said Yael Schacher, a historian who serves as a legal advocate at the global organization Refugees International. “That causes panic and misinformation.”As the Matamoros camp was dismantled, new arrivals pitched tents outside of the park where it had stood. “The Matamoros camp ultimately contained only a tiny fraction of those asylum seekers subjected to this cruel border policy,” Sawyer said.
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SAN ANTONIO – Asylum seekers who have been stuck in Mexico for moths during the Trump administration are slowly being allowed in the United States. Thousands of migrants were forced to wait in Mexico under the program known as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) that was initiated in 2019. A spokesperson for the city of Brownsville said from Wednesday to Sunday, more than 270 asylum seekers were allowed into the city. But once the MPP was put in place, then those individuals were asked to remain in Mexico,” Mendez said. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said there are approximately 25,000 people in the MPP program with active cases.