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Biden Administration Formally Ends ‘Remain In Mexico’ Immigration Policy

Emily Zanotti
Biden Administration Formally Ends ‘Remain In Mexico’ Immigration Policy
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The Biden administration formally ended the Trump administrations “Migrant Protection Protocols” on Tuesday, months after President Joe Biden rescinded what was informally known as the “Remain in Mexico” policy through an executive order, again allowing illegal immigrants seeking asylum to wait in the United States until their case comes up for hearing.

In a seven-page memo distributed Tuesday, Department of Homeland Security head Alejandro Mayorkas announced that the MPP, which kept 70,000 migrants in camps below the United States-Mexico border while they waited for an immigration judge to adjudicate their asylum claims, had come to an end.

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