Supreme Court Reinstates ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy for Asylum Applicants

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court docket on Tuesday reinstated a Trump-era policy that involves asylum applicants to hold out in Mexico although their statements are evaluated by U.S. authorities. The a few liberal justices dissented.

President Biden canceled the Trump administration Migrant Safety Protocols, usually identified as the Stay in Mexico policy, responding to criticism that it compelled vulnerable migrants to hold out out their cases in violent border towns. Lower courts found the administration unsuccessful to observe good processes in ending the policy and that the different of paroling into the U.S. asylum applicants en masse may well violate federal legislation.

The Biden administration requested the Supreme Court docket to let it terminate Stay in Mexico although it appealed, but in a short buy Tuesday evening, the justices stated the govt was unlikely to prevail.

The administration “failed to display a probability of success on the declare that the memorandum rescinding the Migrant Safety Protocols was not arbitrary and capricious,” the unsigned buy stated. Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan indicated they would have granted the government’s software.

“The Department of Homeland Safety respectfully disagrees with the district court’s selection and regrets that the Supreme Court docket declined to issue a remain,” the division stated in a statement, introducing that the administration was in discussions with Mexico above an agreement to re-implement the program.