by Kari Donovan at The Republic Brief
The US Supreme Court overturned the policy of President Donald J. Trump called the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy for asylum seekers. The court ruled 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joining the three liberal judges in the majority.
This is a win for the Biden Administration.
The Supreme Court said by a five to four vote that divided the court that the administration did not violate the rules and went about it all the right way when it tried to shut down the so-called ‘remain in Mexico’ or migrant protection protocol program that was launched during the Trump Administration.
But the question was what do you do with people who come into the United States across the Southern border? Seek Asylum. A federal judge in Texas had ruled in an earlier case, that you’ve got to send them back to Mexico.
And something like 70,000 people were, in fact, return to Mexico under the program.
Human rights groups said that those people there were subject to all sorts of crimes, kidnappings, rapes, and badly mistreated while they were waiting.
And the left considered the Trump program to be a disaster. So the Biden administration tried to shut it down shortly after he came into office, in the White House.
Two states, Texas and Mississippi sued to say ‘no, you didn’t go about it…
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