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US scraps ‘remain in Mexico’ policy after Supreme Court ruling

The policy, which was launched in 2019 under former Republican President Donald Trump, pushed non-Mexican asylum seekers back to Mexico to await resolution of their US immigration cases [File: Go Nakamura/Reuters]

The United States says it has ended a Trump-era policy requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings on their immigration status following a Supreme Court ruling in favour of President Joe Biden’s bid to scrap the initiative.

The Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) programme, informally known as “remain in Mexico”, will be unwound in a “quick, and orderly manner”, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement on Monday.

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