Immigration Advocates Eye Swift Action After High Court Win (1)

June 30, 2022, 5:25 PM UTCUpdated: June 30, 2022, 11:21 PM UTC

Immigrants’ rights advocates and Democratic lawmakers are calling for a quick end to the Trump-era Remain in Mexico program after the US Supreme Court sided with the Biden administration on efforts to end it.

The top court ruled 5-4 that the Department of Homeland Security didn’t violate federal immigration law when it decided last year to terminate the policy that forced asylum seekers at the southern border to wait in Mexico for months while their claims for protection in the US were pending.

The Supreme Court’s decision breaks a trend of repeated legal setbacks for the Biden administration’s immigration policies. ...

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