Homeland security says it ended policy requiring asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings hours after judge lifted an order
The Department of Homeland Security said that it has ended a Trump-era policy requiring asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings incourt, hours after a judge lifted an order, in effect since December, that the so-called Remain in Mexico rule be reinstated.
Homeland security officials had been largely silent, saying they had to wait for the court to certify the ruling and for a Trump-appointed judge, Matthew Kacsmaryk, in Amarillo, Texas, to then lift his injunction. “It’s a zombie policy,” Karen Tumlin, founder of Justice Action Center, an immigration litigation organization, said last week.
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