The United States Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear President Joe Biden’s request to overturn a strict immigration policy implemented by his predecessor, Donald Trump, that pushed tens of thousands of migrants to remain in Mexico while waiting for asylum hearings in the United States, Reuters reports.
The Supreme Court will hear an appeal from the Biden administration of a lower court verdict that reinstated the so-called “stay in Mexico” policy after the Republican-led states of Texas and Missouri sought to keep it in place. Shortly after assuming office last year, Biden discontinued the program, which was a departure from long-standing US tradition.
The case has been expedited so that it can be heard during the Supreme Court’s current term in April, with a decision expected by the end of June.
Donald Trump and his administration used a “security and humanitarian crisis” along the U.S.-Mexican border as justification for refusing to let asylum seekers into the country before hearings before immigration courts. The Migrant Protection Protocols is the official name for the policy.
According to court documents, previous administrations have only applied the federal immigration statute at issue in the case, which went into force in 1997, on a limited basis.
The Biden administration argued that the clause is obviously discretionary and that the lower court’s judgment indicates that every presidential administration since the law’s inception has “been in continuous and systematic violation.”
From the time it went into force in 2019 until Biden terminated it in 2021, over 68,000 persons were affected by the policy.
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