U.S. prepared to restart "Remain in Mexico" border policy in November
CBSN
The Biden administration announced Friday it will be prepared to start returning asylum-seekers to Mexico next month under a Trump-era policy it has previously denounced — as long as the Mexican government accepts the returns.
Granting a request by Republican attorneys general in Texas and Missouri, a federal judge in August ordered the Biden administration to reinstate the so-called "Remain in Mexico" border program, which required 70,000 non-Mexican migrants to wait outside the U.S. for their asylum hearings.
While it is appealing that decision and planning to terminate the policy a second time, the Biden administration is currently legally obligated to comply with the August court order in "good faith." If Mexico agrees to support the policy's revival, the U.S. could start enrolling migrants in the program "sometime in mid-November," a senior Biden administration official told reporters Thursday.
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