The Biden administration restarted the Trump-era border policy on a limited scale earlier this month to comply with court orders.
that required U.S. border officials to resurrect a Trump administration program that requires migrants to wait in Mexico for their asylum hearings.
The Biden administration quickly appealed the ruling and in late October, Mayorkas issued a new, more comprehensive On Wednesday, Justice Department lawyers said the lower court rulings, if left in place, would require the administration to continue the Remain-in-Mexico policy until the Mexican government stops cooperating or Congress allocates enough funds to detain most migrants who reach the U.S. border.
After launching the MPP in 2019, the Trump administration returned 70,000 migrants to Mexico, where many found themselves waiting for their U.S. court hearings in squalid camps or places plagued by crime and cartel violence. Hundreds reported being assaulted, kidnapped or otherwise victimized while waiting in Mexico.
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