WASHINGTON – The US Supreme Court on Monday certified the ruling issued last June authorizing Joe Biden to lift the controversial “Remain in Mexico” immigration program, which forces asylum seekers to wait on the other side of the border while his case is processed.
The highest US judicial instance sent a certified copy of the ruling to the Fifth Circuit of Appeals, which had blocked Biden’s attempt to apply its decision.
On his first day in the White House, the Democratic leader tried to put an end to this program established by his predecessor, Donald Trump, but a federal judge Texas ordered its reinstatement and the Government appealed to the Supreme Court, which last June 30 agreed with it.
With five votes in favor and four against, the Supreme Court judges considered that the memorandum issued by the Government to end the “Remain in Mexico” did not violate federal immigration law.
After learning of the sentence, the Department of Homeland Security, led by Alejandro Mayorkas, announced in a statement that it would continue “its efforts to end the program as soon as legally possible.”
As part of his policy of zero tolerance towards immigrants, Trump established in 2019 the MPP -Migrant Protection Protocols, the official name of the program- , a policy highly criticized by human rights organizations, which affected more than 60,000 asylum seekers, most c Some were stranded in camps on the Mexican border.