On Wednesday, the US Supreme Court ordered US President Joe Biden to reinstate his predecessor Donald Trump's immigration program known as Stay in Mexico.
The conservative-majority justice panel, with three liberal judges dissenting, found that the Biden administration allegedly violated federal law when it repealed what was officially known as the Immigrant Protection Program (MPP) in February. As a result, Central American asylum seekers were previously required to wait in Mexico until the American authorities considered their application.
With this decision, the Supreme Court, despite the efforts of the Biden administration, upheld the decision made by Texas federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk last week, which reinstated the immigration program.
The US government announced in mid-August that the number of illegal border crossing attempts at the US-Mexico border in July exceeded 212,000, the highest number since the turn of the millennium. The Republicans attributed this development to the fact that, since Democratic Party Biden took office in January, he tried to withdraw his predecessor's strict anti-immigration measures, including the MPP program. At the same time, pro-immigration advocates claim that the Stay in Mexico program exposes migrants, mainly from Central American countries, to dangerous conditions in Mexican border cities.
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Cover Photo: Illustration - Central American illegal immigrants cross the Rio Grande into the United States from Ciudad Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua on February 5, 2021. (Photo: MTI/EPA/EFE/Luis Torres)
