The US Supreme Court on Thursday accepted an attempt to end a rigid immigration policy that began under President Joe Biden’s predecessor Donald Trump, forcing tens of thousands of immigrants to stay in Mexico awaiting hearings on their US asylum claims.
In a 5-4 decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the judges reversed a lower court ruling that required Biden to reintroduce Trump’s “stay in Mexico” policy after the Republican-led states of Texas and Missouri. save the program.
The resolution supports Biden’s pursuit of a “more humane” approach to the southern border, with Republicans even blaming it for viewing it as an immigration crisis.
The judges concluded that the New Orleans-based Federal Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit made a mistake by finding that federal immigration laws require immigrants to return to Mexico if there are not enough places to detain them in the United States.
“The problem is that the statute doesn’t say any of that,” Roberts wrote, adding that the Fifth Circuit’s decision incorrectly placed a “significant burden” on the U.S. government’s ability to maintain diplomatic relations with Mexico.
The Trump administration adopted what are officially called the “Immigrant Protection Protocols” in 2018 in response to the surge in immigration at the US-Mexico border, changing longstanding US practices. It prevented some non-Mexican immigrants, including those seeking asylum in their home country for fear of persecution, from being free to await the immigration process in the United States. Instead, they were sent back to Mexico.
source: Noticias
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