Biden, Mayorkas Revoke ‘Remain in Mexico’ Immigration Policy

The Biden-Harris administration announced they would end the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy and “will no longer send asylum seekers back across the border” to await a judicial hearing. The policy was a critical tool used to manage the record-breaking surge of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border.

AP: The Department of Homeland Security said Monday that it ended a Trump-era policy requiring asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court, hours after a judge lifted an order in effect since December that it be reinstated. . .

No more people are being enrolled and those who appear in court will not be returned to Mexico when they appear in the U.S. for their next hearings.

The Biden-Harris administration’s immigration policy — which Texas Governor Greg Abbott called “chaos” — has been enabled and supported by vulnerable Democrats in border states. When Republicans proposed strengthening Remain in Mexico, Catherine Cortez Masto and Mark Kelly voted against it. Cortez Masto and Kelly — along with Maggie Hassan and Raphael Warnock — also opposed enhancing border security and cracking down on sanctuary cities.

Reporting from the border confirms the situation is still a crisis, and the effects — increasingly deadly — are felt nationwide. 

Live in Eagle Pass, TX, part of Del Rio sector which has seen nearly 390,000 illegal crossings since 10/1, that’s double the same time last year, and it’s roughly the size of the population of New Orleans.
In Nogales, AZ, CBP seized over 1 million fentanyl pills in a single week. pic.twitter.com/of1KBpL9tK

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) August 8, 2022

Bottom Line: The Biden-Harris administration — with the support of border-state Democrats — revoked a policy that discouraged illegal immigration to the United States.