Asylum seekers in the US will no longer have to stay in Mexico 2:47
(CNN) --
A federal judge in Texas halted the Biden administration's latest attempt to end the program known as "Remain in Mexico."
U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk is pausing completion of the program that was outlined in an October 2021 policy memo while litigation continues.
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Earlier this summer, the Supreme Court said the Biden administration had the authority to end the program, rejecting arguments from Republican states that immigration law required the program to remain in place.
But the Supreme Court sent the case back to Kacsmaryk to consider whether the release of the October 2021 memo complied with administrative law.
This is yet another setback in Biden's effort to end Trump's controversial policy of sending certain non-Mexican citizens who entered the US back to Mexico, instead of detaining or releasing them in the United States, while they await the resolution of their immigration procedures.
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