Alejandro Mayorkas Vows End to ‘Remain in Mexico’ Despite Its Success Eliminating Asylum Fraud
John Binder 1 Jul 2022
President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is vowing an end to the “Remain in Mexico” program despite its success in cutting asylum fraud.
First implemented in 2019 by former President Trump, the Remain in Mexico program allows DHS to quickly return border crossers to Mexico while they await their asylum and immigration hearings in the United States — effectively eliminating the practice commonly known as “Catch and Release.”
On Thursday, the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruled that Biden’s DHS can end Remain in Mexico but kicked the case back to a lower court to decide whether the administration properly ended the program in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).
Biden’s DHS released a statement following the ruling, vowing to continue their effort to end Remain in Mexico:
As Secretary Mayorkas concluded in October 2021 after a thorough review, the prior Administration’s Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) has endemic flaws, imposes unjustifiable human costs, and pulls resources and personnel away from other priority efforts to secure our border. We welcome the Supreme Court’s decision affirming that the Secretary has the discretionary authority to terminate the program, and we will continue our efforts to terminate the program as soon as legally permissible.
The Biden administration’s seeking to end Remain in Mexico comes even as the program has drastically helped eliminate asylum fraud where border crossers and illegal aliens, who knowingly did not qualify for asylum, were released into the U.S. interior regardless.
The latest federal data, as Breitbart News reported, reveals that of the more than 45,000 Remain in Mexico cases adjudicated, only 1.6 percent of migrants enrolled in the program have been found to have legitimate asylum claims.
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