Supreme Court says Trump administration may continue 'Remain in Mexico' policy for asylum seekers
Source: Washington Post
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the Trump administration may continue its Remain in Mexico policy for asylum seekers while lower-court challenges continue, after the federal government warned that tens of thousands of immigrants amassed at the southern border could overwhelm the immigration system.
The justices reversed a decision of a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, which had ordered the policy be suspended Thursday on parts of the border. Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the only noted dissenter. The Trump administration had warned the justices of a dire situation without their intervention.
Substantial numbers of up to 25,000 returned aliens who are awaiting proceedings in Mexico will rush immediately to enter the United States, Solicitor General Noel Francisco wrote in a brief. A surge of that magnitude would impose extraordinary burdens on the United States and damage our diplomatic relations with the government of Mexico.
The program officially known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, or MPP is among the tools the Trump administration has used to curb mass migration from Central America and elsewhere across the southern U.S. border.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-trump-remain-in-mexico/2020/03/11/7abd4b9c-62d7-11ea-acca-80c22bbee96f_story.html
2naSalit
(86,579 posts)Peregrine Took
(7,413 posts)dhill926
(16,337 posts)instituted this policy in the first place. Substantial numbers of up to 25,000 returned aliens who are awaiting proceedings in Mexico will rush immediately to enter the United States,
Assholes....
Polybius
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OneCrazyDiamond
(2,031 posts)Polybius
(15,390 posts)Im surprised it was 8-1. Wonder why.
ripcord
(5,372 posts)People don't really understand how much power the President has when it comes to immigration policy, Congress makes the laws but the President decides how they are enforced. Remember it works both ways, President Obama was able to go around a Congress that couldn't change the law and implemented DACA. Some people claimed he was writing new law but the truth was he just changed how the laws were enforced. The problem is that these changes, both the good and the bad, are subject to the whims of following administrations.