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Biden administration ends Trump-era ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy

A US border patrol looks on at people wait to have their identities checked and taken to a processing center in Yuma, Arizona, in June.
A US border patrol officer looks on at people wait to have their identities checked and taken to a processing center in Yuma, Arizona, in June. Photograph: Étienne Laurent/EPA

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that it has ended a Trump-era policy requiring asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in US immigration court, hours after a judge lifted an order, in effect since December, that the so-called Remain in Mexico rule be reinstated.

The timing had been in doubt since the US supreme court ruled on 30 June that the Biden administration could end the policy.

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