Department of Justice lawyers late Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to hear a case involving the “Remain in Mexico” program. The policy was started during the Trump administration and forces many asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims are heard. The Biden administration ended it but was ordered by a judge over the summer to relaunch it. The judge said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas didn’t adequately consider the benefits of the program, which included deterring some would-be illegal immigrants from entering the United States. Mayorkas came up with a new memorandum in October attempting to end the program again, but an appeals court upheld the judge’s ruling, asserting the memo didn’t affect the ongoing case because it “simply reaffirmed the termination decision that the states had been challenging all along.” Biden administration lawyers in the filing Wednesday told the Supreme Court that decision was made in error. …
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