The Supreme Court has accepted the request of the Government chaired by Joe Biden to withdraw from its calendar of arguments foreseen in February the cases promoted by the Administration of former President Donald Trump on the border wall and the policy of Stay in Mexico, as indicated this Wednesday the informative website SCOTUSblog.
The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Monday to cancel the review of these two controversial measures, which were challenged in court, since Biden has taken steps to annul them.
Acting Attorney General Elizabeth Prelogar asked the highest court to
remove from the calendar and suspend additional procedures
related to the legal defense of the border wall construction and the Stay in Mexico program for asylum seekers.
The border wall case was to be debated on February 22 and the case of Stay in Mexico, which forced migrants seeking asylum to wait for their hearings on the Mexican side of the border, was to be heard a week later. , On March 1.
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The request that the defense of the cases be eliminated reflects
the change of direction of the new Administration in immigration and border security
.
Stopping the wall project was one of the first steps Biden took upon taking office.
"It will be the policy of my Administration that no more dollars are diverted from US taxpayers to build a border wall," he said in a proclamation signed Jan. 20.
Another change the incoming Administration implemented was to request the Department of Homeland Security to
suspend the policy of sending asylum seekers from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala back to the northern border of Mexico
, instead of allowing them to wait in United States to hear their cases.
From the end of January 2019 until the program was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, more than
68,700 people were transferred back to Mexico
under what the Government called the Migrant Protection Protocols.
A federal appeals court ruled last June that the government improperly diverted $ 2.5 billion from the Pentagon's anti-drug program to build more than 100 miles of border wall.
The court said only Congress could approve such a transfer.
With information from NBC News and The Associated Press.