Supreme Court pauses reinstatement of Remain-in-Mexico border policy
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The Supreme Court late Friday paused a lower court order that would have required the Biden administration to restart the Trump-era practice of instructing migrants to wait in Mexico for their asylum hearings on Saturday.
While temporary, the order signed by Justice Samuel Alito granted the Biden administration more time to fight off the reinstatement of a border policy it has strongly denounced as ineffective and inhumane. The suspension of the lower court order expires Tuesday. Last week, U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, directed the Biden administration to revive the so-called "Remain in Mexico" program, saying it was unlawfully terminated earlier this year.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.