A Modest Proposal for ‘Remain in Mexico’ that Even Biden Would Like
Set up protected housing for illegal migrants awaiting hearings; it could happen in Monterrey
By Andrew R. Arthur on April 25, 2022
Tomorrow, April 26, the Supreme Court will consider whether the Biden administration can rescind the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), better known as “Remain in Mexico”. Biden hates MPP, and his DHS contends that the program has imposed “substantial and unjustifiable human costs” on aliens returned to Mexico to await removal hearings. A modest proposal: Send illegal migrants caught at the Southwest border to Mexico but place them in U.S. government-funded housing where they could safely await their court dates. It could happen in Monterrey, capital of the Mexican state of Nuevo León.
MPP’s Travels. Remain in Mexico has come a long way in just over three years, and this will be its third journey to the High Court. To begin, the program was implemented by then-DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in January 2019.
MPP allowed DHS to return “other than Mexican” migrants caught entering illegally or without proper documents back to Mexico — where the Mexican government agreed to provide them with protection for the duration of their stays — to await removal hearings. They were then paroled into the United States long enough to apply for asylum.
Immigrant advocates moved to block the program in February 2019 in federal court in northern California, and a district court judge there enjoined MPP in early April of that year. Shortly thereafter, that injunction was stayed by a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit.
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