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

[Botany]

1. "Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee, blocked the administration ... "

There was a reason behind all that court packing by the right and the blocking of as many
judges as possible by the right.