A Texas federal judge on Thursday ruled for a second time that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security can’t end a Trump administration program that forced asylum seekers to wait outside the country while their claims are resolved.
The so-called “Remain in Mexico” program had already been halted by President Joe Biden, but U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo ruled the policy must go back into effect while Texas and Missouri play out their legal challenge to keep it in place.
Kacsmaryk called the Biden administration’s Oct. 29 memoranda to halt the program — formally known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, or MPP — “arbitrary and capricious” and said officials failed to consider possible benefits of keeping it in place.
