{"id":81081,"date":"2022-02-19T04:40:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T23:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/supreme-court-to-review-remain-in-mexico-asylum-policy\/"},"modified":"2022-02-19T04:40:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T23:10:07","slug":"supreme-court-to-review-remain-in-mexico-asylum-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/supreme-court-to-review-remain-in-mexico-asylum-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court to Review \u2018Remain in Mexico\u2019 Asylum Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The Supreme Court <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/orders\/courtorders\/021822zr_o758.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">agreed on Friday to decide<\/a> whether the Biden administration can end a Trump-era immigration program that forces asylum seekers arriving at the southwestern border to await approval in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">The court put the case on a fast track, scheduling arguments for April. A decision will probably arrive by the end of the court\u2019s current term in late June or early July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">The challenged program, known commonly as Remain in Mexico and formally as the Migrant Protection Protocols, applies to people who left a third country and traveled through Mexico to reach the U.S. border. After the policy was put in place at the beginning of 2019, tens of thousands of people waited in unsanitary tent encampments for immigration hearings. There have been widespread reports of sexual assault, kidnapping and torture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Soon after he took office, President Biden sought to end the program. Texas and Missouri sued, saying they had been injured by the termination by having to provide government services like drivers\u2019 licenses to immigrants allowed into the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Last August, <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fjc.gov\/history\/judges\/kacsmaryk-matthew-joseph\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk<\/a> of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, in Amarillo, ruled that a federal law required returning noncitizens seeking asylum to Mexico whenever the government lacked the resources to detain them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">The Biden administration promptly asked the Supreme Court to intervene, but it refused to block Judge Kacsmaryk\u2019s ruling, which required it to restart the program. The three more liberal justices dissented.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">The court\u2019s <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/orders\/courtorders\/082421zr_2d9g.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">brief unsigned order<\/a> at the time said that the administration had appeared to have acted arbitrarily and capriciously in rescinding the program, citing a 2020 decision that had refused to let the Trump administration immediately rescind an Obama-era program protecting the young immigrants known as Dreamers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">The Biden administration then took steps to restart the program and issued a new decision seeking to end it. Administration officials, responding to criticism that they had acted hastily, released a 38-page memorandum setting out their reasoning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">They concluded that the program\u2019s costs outweighed its benefits. Among those costs, the memo said, were the dangerous conditions in Mexico, the difficulty immigrants faced in conferring with lawyers across the border and the ways in which the program undermined the administration\u2019s foreign-policy objectives and domestic-policy initiatives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/21\/21-954\/206810\/20211229162706409_Biden%20v.%20Texas%20%20App_.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">rejected the administration\u2019s plan<\/a> to shut down the program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">\u201cThe government says it has unreviewable and unilateral discretion to create and to eliminate entire components of the federal bureaucracy that affect countless people, tax dollars and sovereign states,\u201d Judge Andrew S. Oldham wrote for the panel. \u201cThe government also says it has unreviewable and unilateral discretion to ignore statutory limits imposed by Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">\u201cAnd the government says it can do all of this by typing up a new \u2018memo\u2019 and posting it on the internet,\u201d he added. \u201cIf the government were correct, it would supplant the rule of law with the rule of say-so. We hold the government is wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Elizabeth B. Prelogar, the solicitor general, <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/21\/21-954\/212157\/20220202163536494_21-954%20Biden%20v.%20Texas%20-%20Cert%20Reply.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told the justices<\/a> that the appeals court\u2019s decision amounted to unwarranted interference with the president\u2019s power over foreign affairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">\u201cThe injunction is compelling the executive branch to maintain a controversial policy that\u201d officials have \u201cdetermined is contrary to the interests of the United States; to divert resources from other critical priorities; and to engage in ongoing coordination with Mexico,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThat continuing intrusion on the executive\u2019s constitutional and statutory authority to manage the border and conduct the nation\u2019s foreign policy warrants immediate review.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Lawyers for Texas and Missouri <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/21\/21-954\/211656\/20220128123018005_Texas%20v.%20Biden_%20No.%2021-954%20BIO.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told the justices<\/a> that the program was an effective tool to protect the nation\u2019s borders and that the administration had not followed lawful procedures in its attempt to rescind it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether the Biden administration can end a Trump-era immigration program that forces asylum seekers arriving at the southwestern border to await approval in Mexico. The court put the case on a fast track, scheduling arguments for April. 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