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Court to Hear 'Remain in Mexico' Immigration Dispute

Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Feb 22, 2022
News Type: U.S. Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether the Biden administration must continue to enforce the Trump-era program known as the “remain in Mexico” policy, which requires asylum seekers to stay in Mexico while they wait for a hearing in U.S. immigration court. SCOTUSblog reports that the justices fast-tracked the administration’s appeal, setting the case for oral argument in late April, with a decision expected before the summer recess. President Joe Biden stopped enforcing the policy when he took office. Last year, a district court judge ordered the administration to reinstate it. That ruling is still in effect since the court of appeals and the high court declined to block it at the time. A new, revised effort to end the program also has failed to convince the lower courts to stop it, leading to this latest appeal to the Supreme Court.

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