WASHINGTON — Courts can’t force President Joe Biden to abide by former President Donald Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy indefinitely, especially since it puts vulnerable migrants in danger and hampers foreign relations.
The Justice Department pressed that claim in a filing submitted Tuesday to the Supreme Court in a clash with Texas and Missouri, which so far have managed to frustrate Biden’s efforts to erase a Trump-era policy that keeps asylum seekers from setting foot on American soil.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments next Tuesday on the case, a skirmish in a deeply partisan fight that include Gov. Greg Abbott’s recent provocations — busing migrants to the nation’s capital and ordering truck inspections that snarled cross-border trade for 10 days and putting an estimated $4.2 billion dent in the Texas economy.
