On Aug. 24, 2021 the Supreme Court, 6-3, denied the Biden administration's application for a stay of a district court order reactivating the "Remain in Mexico" (Migrant Protection Protocols or "MPP") program. Amy L. Howe has details here...
David Isaacson, Aug. 18, 2021 "On Friday, August 13, U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued an Opinion and Order ruling in favor of the states of Texas and Missouri in a lawsuit that...
TRAC, May 11, 2021 "As of the end of April 2021, a total of 8,387 individuals formerly forced to remain in Mexico under the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) have been able to enter the United States since President Biden ended this Trump-era program [1...
Human Rights Watch, Jan. 6, 2021 "The United States government’s “Remain in Mexico” program subjects children and adults to serious, ongoing harm, including abduction and rape, and should be quickly and decisively dismantled, Human Rights Watch said in...
Max Rivlin-Nadler, KPBS, Sept. 18, 2020 "A new filing in federal court claims that Customs and Border Protection knew it was breaking the law when it began turning away asylum-seekers at the southern border. The filings are part of a class-action lawsuit...
This American Life, Nov. 15, 2019 "Reports from the frontlines of the Trump administration's "Remain in Mexico" asylum policy. We hear from asylum seekers waiting across the border in Mexico, in a makeshift refugee camp, and from the officers...
American Immigration Council, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Human Rights Watch (HRW), Winston & Strawn LLP, May 14, 2020 "The American Immigration Council, the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Human Rights Watch (HRW...
Miriam Jordan, New York Times, Mar. 4, 2020 "While insisting that a policy that has forced 60,000 asylum seekers to wait in Mexico violates United States law, a federal appeals court on Wednesday granted the Trump administration’s request to keep the “Remain...
HRW, Feb. 12, 2020 "A United States government program exposes children, as well as their parents, seeking asylum to serious risk of assault, mistreatment, and trauma while waiting for their cases to be heard, Human Rights Watch said today in a joint investigation...
Dara Lind, ProPublica, Jan. 31, 2020 "Under Trump, Border Patrol agents wield nearly unchecked power over the fate of migrants — and their seemingly random decisions can cleave families apart. ... [much more...]"
Joel Rose, NPR, Jan. 9, 2020 "The judge granted Jesus withholding of removal, a form of protection from deportation. In other words, he won — something that very few migrants at the border can say these days. Jesus thought he might finally be allowed into...
DHS, Jan. 2, 2020 "Today, the Department of Homeland Security will begin processing migrants for return to Mexico under the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) at the Nogales Port of Entry south of Tucson, Arizona. This brings the total number of ports of...
Priscilla Alvarez, CNN, Dec. 6, 2019 "More immigration judges will begin conducting hearings over video conferencing at tent courts along the US-Mexico border, raising concerns among lawyers about transparency in the immigration process. Earlier this year...
Bianca Bruno, Courthouse News Service, Nov. 19, 2019 "The federal government can’t employ bait-and-switch tactics to apply new restrictions on asylum to block migrants from making humanitarian claims at U.S. ports of entry after they waited for months in...
Hamed Aleaziz, BuzzFeed News, Nov. 14, 2019 "A team of senior Department of Homeland Security officials who examined a controversial Trump administration program to keep asylum-seekers in Mexico found that US border officials have not only prevented immigrants...