Remain in Mexico policy is a no win situation for Biden

 Washington Examiner:

President Joe Biden’s attempt to shed immigration and asylum policies he denounced as “inhumane” and “dangerous” on the campaign trail has become the most persistent operational and diplomatic crisis facing his administration, leaving him with few palatable options to handle a migration surge and adverse court rulings.

Among the Trump administration policies Biden has sought to dismantle was a requirement that asylum-seekers live in Mexico while awaiting a U.S. court hearing. Biden rescinded "Remain in Mexico," as it was informally known, on his first day in office.

But the Supreme Court last month denied a Biden administration request to stay a ruling in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, ordering a return to the Trump administration’s Migrant Protection Protocols immigration rule.

Biden was sued by Texas and Missouri, arguing the surge in migrant arrivals “imposed severe and ongoing burdens” on their states. Roughly 213,000 people were apprehended while attempting to cross the border illegally in July, an increase from 74,000 in December before Biden took office.

Biden officials have begun talks with the Mexican government over restarting the practice. However, no country under international law is required to accept anyone who is not a citizen, said Theresa Cardinal Brown, managing director of immigration and cross-border policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington.

“If Mexico were to say, ‘No, we’re not going to take back people into our territory under MPP,' then the administration can’t proceed,” Brown said.

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Mexico has little reason to go along with the policy now since Biden has in effect invited the world to illegally enter the country and has flooded the border with migrants.   Under Trump, the numbers were manageable for Mexico because his border policies inhibited illegal entry.  Under Biden., his policies have botched the immigration issue on both sides of the border.

See, also:

Biden Immigration Policies Becoming Trump's Second Term

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 Those Trump “inhumane” policies were the only thing keeping the United States from being overrun with poor, desperate people. So Biden has reluctantly been required to keep many of those policies in place.

Biden keeps denying it, but the illegal aliens and asylum seekers are crowding our border at Biden’s express invitation. And his own people know it and are furiously backtracking to get the border crisis under control before the electoral damage is too much to undo.

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And: 

More migrants sent back to Mexico after Trump-era policy reinstated

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