The Biden administration formally ended the Trump administrations « Migrant Protection Protocols » on Tuesday, months after President Joe Biden rescinded
The Biden administration formally ended the Trump administrations “Migrant Protection Protocols” on Tuesday, months after President Joe Biden rescinded what was informally known as the “Remain in Mexico” policy through an executive order, again allowing illegal immigrants seeking asylum to wait in the United States until their case comes up for hearing. In a seven-page memo distributed Tuesday, Department of Homeland Security head Alejandro Mayorkas announced that the MPP, which kept 70,000 migrants in camps below the United States-Mexico border while they waited for an immigration judge to adjudicate their asylum claims, had come to an end. “The announcement appeared to be a foregone conclusion after Biden promised as a candidate to end the policy, known informally as ‘Remain in Mexico,’ but he left a window open by ordering a review before shutting it down permanently,” the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Mayorkas made the final decision to end, rather than update or append the policy, writing that it “would not be consistent with this Administration’s vision and values and would be a poor use of the Department’s resources.
