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State Chapters => Texas => Topic started by: libertybele on December 16, 2022, 02:32:08 am
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Texas federal court stays termination of 'Remain in Mexico' policyTexas federal court stays termination of 'Remain in Mexico' policy
President Biden’s effort to terminate a Trump-era policy called, "Remain in Mexico," was stayed by a U.S. District Court Judge this week after litigation bounced between several different courts.
"This action has a complex procedural history, having gone from this Court to the Fifth Circuit, to the Supreme Court, and back to this Court on remand," U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk wrote in his decision. "Or ‘there and back again.’ See J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (1937)."
The decision comes nearly six months after the Supreme Court ruled on a memorandum issued on June 1, 2022, from the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. In his memo, Mayorkas terminated Migration Protection Protocols, commonly referred to as the "Remain in Mexico" policy. ..............
https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-federal-court-stays-termination-remain-mexico-policy
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Is this Title 42?
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The Trump administration’s Migrant Protection Protocols, also known as the Remain in Mexico policy, required asylum seekers at the U.S. border to wait in Mexico while their cases are processed. Title 42, on the other hand, was enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic and allows Customs and Border Patrol agents to turn away migrants for public health reasons.