The Washington Times: Judge orders DHS to restart Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy

IRLI In The News

August 16, 2021

By Stephen Dinan

A federal judge ordered Homeland Security to restart President Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, ruling Friday that the Biden administration cut too many corners when it scrapped the get-tough approach to illegal border crossers.

Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas rushed to scrap the policy, officially known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, without considering the benefits of pushing border jumpers back across the boundary to Mexico to await their immigration court dates.

Read the full story at The Washington Times.

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