BREAKING: Supreme Court allows Trump to continue “Remain in Mexico” policy at the border

by The Right Scoop

The Trump administration won a small victory today in his fight to control immigration at the border, with the Supreme Court overriding an injunction and allowing Trump to continue his “Remain in Mexico” policy:

THE HILL – The Supreme Court announced on Wednesday that the Trump administration may enforce a policy that requires asylum-seekers to remain in Mexico.

The justices will allow the “Remain in Mexico” policy to continue while the administration appeals a lower court ruling which deemed the program illegal and ordered a suspension that was scheduled to take effect tomorrow.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the only justice to publicly dissent from the decision to allow the policy to continue.

Known officially as Migrant Protection Protocols, the policy aims to curb entry into the U.S. by asylum-seekers, many of whom are Central American migrants. More than 60,000 asylum-seekers have been barred from entry since the program was implemented just over a year ago, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The program has been used to “process tens of thousands of aliens applying for asylum … without the need to detain the applicants in the United States during the weeks and months it takes to process their applications,” read a court filing that DHS submitted to the justices last week.

The Hill notes that a federal court in California ruled “that the policy violates U.S. immigration law and contravenes international human rights norms” and issued a nationwide injunction. The 9th Circuit agreed with the injunction but narrowed it to only apply to California and Arizona.

They also note that the injunction was supposed to take effect tomorrow, so this ruling by the Supreme Court was very timely.

Here’s the order from the Supreme Court:


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