U.S. Must Restart Trump’s Wait-in-Mexico Asylum Rule on Saturday
- Appeals Court Refuses to Halt Judge’s Order Reviving Policy
- Biden Had Reversed Policy, Let Asylum Seekers Wait in U.S.
A migrant camp in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico.
Photographer: Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty images
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A federal appeals court ordered the Biden administration to reinstate the widely criticized Trump-era policy requiring asylum seekers at the southern border to wait in Mexico for their cases to be processed.
The appellate court rejected the new administration’s plea to suspend the Saturday reinstatement deadline -- imposed last week by a judge in Texas -- for at least seven days to give the White House time to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene. President Joe Biden’s homeland security chief is expected to rush to the high court to stall re-implementation while the legal fight continues.