The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dismissed as moot a lawsuit filed against former President Donald Trump’s immigration policy that forced tens of thousands of asylum seekers to await their U.S. court dates in Mexico.
In an unsigned order, the high court remanded the case back to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals with instructions to vacate it as moot in light of President Joe Biden’s order to terminate the so-called “Remain in Mexico” program this month.
The justices ruled that an April 2019 injunction granted by the appellate panel blocking the implementation of Trump’s Migrant Protection Protocols is now moot, as is a request filed last month by attorneys general in Texas, Missouri and Arizona seeking to intervene in the case.
The suit, known as Mayorkas vs. Innovation Lab Law, targeted the policy that said migrants seeking asylum in the United States were required to stay in Mexico while awaiting a ruling on their application.
Civil rights and immigration advocacy groups sued the Department of Homeland Security over the policy, which they argued subjected both children and adults to serious harm like abduction and rape when they were forced to return to Mexico.
Biden’s administration ended the policy on June 1 after halting its implementation on Biden’s first day in office.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced the end of the policy and said he’d determined that it doesn’t “adequately or sustainably enhance border management” to justify its existence.
Under the policy, border officials directed some 68,000 asylum seekers to return to Mexico.
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“Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced the end of the policy and said he’d determined that it doesn’t “adequately or sustainably enhance border management”. Hey Mayorkas, what border is being managed? Our southern border is wide open, so it is certainly not “managed”! Liberal equals liar!
TO THEM< it being wide the hell open IS "mannaging it".
So how many days in the year does the Supreme Court work? It needs to be more days, and take on more cases. Can’t handle it , then retire please. We really do not need any senile judges on the bench.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, although not quite that senile, is still dead and by Biden’s criteria should still be voting.
With how many days off they seem to take, i’d say 250 or so days a year.
“Civil rights and immigration advocacy groups sued the Department of Homeland Security over the policy, which they argued subjected both children and adults to serious harm like abduction and rape when they were forced to return to Mexico.”
What is happening down in Mexico is happening in the U.S. and just about every country in the world. There is no guarantee that the same thing won’t happen here. They need to come up with a better excuse than that to get asylum.
PLUS as i’ve said before.. DOESN’T THIS NATION already have its OWN Rapes, murders and other crimes here, OFTEN DONE BY Illegals BRINGING IN THEIR GANGS WITH THEM!?!?!?
We see everyday that “WE the PEOPLE” of the U.S.A. are being betrayed by the treasonous, socialist Democrat Party and its traitor, puppet president “Let’s Go Brandon. Nothing this treasonous, socialist Democrat Party and its traitor, puppet president “Let’s Go Brandon has benefitted our country. Everything this Democrat Party has done is to damage our country!!
The Treasonous, dishonest, destructive, Socialist Democrat Party game plan is to lie, cheat and steal in order to take total control of the American people,
increase Taxes on everything and bring American commerce and economy to its knees and to promote Socialism.
Then access power and retain it by any means available –
no matter the costs to the people, the government or the nation.
This treasonous, dishonest, destructive, corrupt, immoral, socialist Democrat Party has become our country’s most destructive and deadliest ENEMY!