The Supreme Court held Thursday that migrants do not need to be forced back to Mexico pending decisions in their U.S. immigration court cases, paving the way for the Biden administration to reverse the Trump-era policy.
In a 5-4 decision, the high court sided with the Biden administration’s authority to rescind the “Remain in Mexico” program, formally known as the Migrant Protection Protocols.
While in effect during the Trump administration, the policy required some 70,000 migrants, including asylum-seekers, who crossed the border and requested protections to wait in Mexico for final decisions in their U.S. immigration court cases.
