After having lost a legal battle, the Biden administration tentatively plans a mid-November restart of a Trump-era policy that forces migrants seeking asylum to wait in Mexico for their U.S. immigration court hearings, according to a court filing.
Senior administration officials told reporters Thursday that under the updated Biden administration version of Remain in Mexico, immigrants will get court dates set no more than six months in the future and will attend hearings with immigration judges in one of 10 courts to be set up near Brownsville and Laredo, Texas.
Mexico will also have the power to amend the policy, the officials said, and the administration has been consulting with it about the details."There are certain issues Mexico has also raised about the prior implementation" of Remain in Mexico, one of the officials said."Any reimplementation would have to take those into account."
"Significantly, Mexico is a sovereign nation that must make an independent decision to accept the return of individuals without status in Mexico as part of any reimplementation of MPP," the statement said."Discussions with the Government of Mexico concerning when and how MPP will be reimplemented are ongoing."
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