Federal judge orders Biden administration to revive Trump-era border policy (remain in Mexico)

[Eugene]

Source: CNN

Federal judge orders Biden administration to revive Trump-era border policy

By Priscilla Alvarez and Tierney Sneed, CNN
Updated 1629 GMT (0029 HKT) August 14, 2021

(CNN) — A federal judge in Texas has ordered the Biden administration to revive a Trump-era border policy that required migrants to stay in Mexico until their US immigration court date.

Shortly after President Joe Biden took office, he ended the policy known as "remain in Mexico" that resulted in thousands of non-Mexican migrants having to wait in Mexico until their immigration hearings, often in dangerous conditions.

In April, the state of Texas and the state of Missouri sued the Biden administration, arguing that reversing the policy led to a surge of migrants at the US-Mexico border that inflicted costs on the states.

A couple months later, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas formally ended the policy in a June memo, and the administration later worked to admit those migrants who had been subject to it.

But late Friday, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee, blocked the administration from implementing that memo, though he stayed his order for seven days "to allow the federal government time to seek emergency relief at the appellate level."

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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/14/politics/biden-remain-in-mexico-border-policy/index.html

[PSPS]

1. Kacsmaryk is a trump appointee and is, of course, another freak mcconnel jammed through

He was Deputy General Counsel to First Liberty Institute, a conservative religious freedom legal advocacy group. He has been a member of the Fort Worth chapter of the Federalist Society since 2012.

The American Bar Association rated Kacsmaryk "qualified" for the nomination (a ranking below "well qualified" ). However, Senate Democrats and a number of LGBT advocacy groups opposed his nomination due to his writings and comments on LGBT rights and women's contraceptive rights. He has worked on religious liberty cases opposing certain LGBT protections in housing, employment and health care. He has referred homosexuality as "disordered", and to being transgender as a "delusion" and a "mental disorder". He opposes the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion in the United States.

[Tanuki]

2. He is known to be a vile bigot on many levels

https://www.statesman.com/news/20180119/texan-gets-panels-nod-for-federal-judge-post-over-democrats-objections

..."He is an anti-LGBT activist and culture warrior who does not respect the equal dignity of all people,” she said, reading from a letter from the conference. “His record reveals a hostility to LGBT equality and to women’s health, and he would not be able to rule fairly and impartially in cases involving those issues.” In one case, said Feinstein, “Mr. Kacsmaryk wanted health care providers to be able to discriminate against LGBT individuals.”...(more)

[secondwind]

3. I thought only unaccompanied minors were being let in.

We’ve turned away 600,000…. What time s their problem??