{"id":24896,"date":"2021-08-17T13:56:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T17:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=24896"},"modified":"2021-08-17T13:56:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T17:56:07","slug":"biden-goes-court-mpp-challenge-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/08\/17\/biden-goes-court-mpp-challenge-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration Challenges Remain in Mexico Program in Court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Those horrified by the unmitigated disaster at our Southwest border received some good news on August 13th<\/sup> after the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled that the Biden administration unlawfully ended the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), commonly referred to as the Remain in Mexico program. District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk ordered<\/a> the Biden administration to restart the successful program, citing the administration\u2019s failure to follow the Administrative Procedures Act. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The implementation of the MPP during the Trump administration led to the orderly end of the 2019 migrant crisis. The program directed asylum-seeking aliens to wait in Mexico throughout the duration of their asylum proceedings in the United States, which took away the chief incentive to claim asylum in the first place: temporary legal presence in the United States. The Biden administration\u2019s cancellation of the MPP led in part to the current border crisis. In the first six months (February-July) of the Biden administration, U.S. Border Patrol apprehended over 1 million illegal aliens<\/a> at the Southwest border. The tally for July alone \u2013 212,672 apprehensions \u2013 was the highest in 20 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Judge Kacsmaryk\u2019s ruling offered the Biden administration a\npolitically convenient excuse to take back control of the southern border. The\nBiden administration could have easily justified the return of the MPP by\nciting the court\u2019s ruling, and quietly conceded that the decision to end the\nMPP was bad policy on their part. <\/p>\n\n\n\n