Reacting to the supreme court’s order, Omar Jadwat, a lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union, which challenged the Trump policy during the previous administration, said the Biden administration must “take all steps available to fully end this illegal program, including by re-terminating it with a fuller explanation”.Īrrests of migrants caught crossing the US southern border have reached 20-year highs in recent months, a development that Republicans blame on Biden’s reversal of MPP and other Trump immigration policies.īiden’s administration has left in place a separate Trump-era order that lets US border authorities, because of the Covid-19 public health crisis, rapidly expel migrants caught at the border without giving them a chance to seek asylum in the United States. Trump’s administration cited a “security and humanitarian crisis” along the US-Mexico border in refusing to allow migrants seeking asylum, because of a fear of persecution in their home countries, to enter the United States ahead of hearings before immigration judges. The Biden administration announced it would enforce federal policy to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination in health care based on gender identity & sexual.
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The fifth circuit’s decision said the Biden administration must implement the MPP program in “good faith”, which leaves the government some discretion in how to move forward.ĭemocrats and immigration advocates criticized MPP, saying the policy subjected migrants, primarily from Central America, to dangerous conditions in Mexican border cities.
On his first day, Biden signs executive orders to reverse Trumps policies. Biden has a sweeping economic recovery plan, under the moniker Build Back Better, that promises to create millions of job. Republican-led Texas and Missouri challenged the Democratic president’s move.īiden’s administration turned to the supreme court after Kacsmaryk ruled that the Trump policy would have to be reinstated and the New Orleans-based fifth US circuit court of appeals on 19 August denied the government’s request for a delay. Tracking the political appointees Biden is nominating to fill the top roles. The court’s decision referenced its 2020 ruling that thwarted Trump’s bid to end a program introduced by Barack Obama that protects from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrants – often called “Dreamers” – who entered the United States without papers as children.īoth cases concern whether the government followed the correct legal process in unwinding a previous administration’s policy.īiden, who has sought since taking office in January to reverse many of Trump’s hardline immigration policies, rolled back the MPP program. The brief order by the justices means that US district judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling now goes into effect.
The court’s 6-3 conservative majority includes three justices appointed by Trump.
The court, with three liberal justices dissenting, rejected the Biden administration’s effort to block a Texas-based judge’s ruling requiring the government to revive Trump’s “remain in Mexico” policy, formally known as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program.
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