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Washington — some The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Monday that thousands of migrants forced to wait in Mexico under a Trump-era program will enter the United States to apply for asylum in the coming weeks and months. said it would be gradually allowed to do so.
The move came after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Democratic President Joe Biden, whose U.S. lawsuit sometimes took months or years.
The Biden administration will no longer enroll immigrants in his MPP, immigrants currently waiting in Mexico will be excluded from the program, and by the next scheduled court date. You will be allowed to enter the United States. , DHS said in a statement.
The MPP program was launched in his 2019 under former Republican President Donald Trump, who sought to limit both legal and illegal immigration. Under the Trump administration, the initiative has deported more than 65,000 non-Mexican asylum seekers across the border, where they wait in dirty and often dangerous conditions.
Biden terminated his MPP shortly after taking office in January 2021 as part of an effort to reverse the hard-line policies of his Republican predecessor. However, Biden was forced to restart the program after its termination was stopped by a federal judge in August 2021, and the legal battle eventually ended up in the Supreme Court.
As of July 6, nearly 5,800 immigrants had been sent to Mexico under the revised program, according to DHS statistics.
The Biden administration was individually suspended in court from terminating another Trump-era order known as Title 42. (Reporting by Ted Hesson of him in Washington; Editing by Mica Rosenberg)
