Supreme Court lets Biden scrap Trump policy that barred 70,000 asylum seekers from US

Texas failed to stop the end of ‘Remain in Mexico,’ which kept migrants across the border, often in dangerous camps. WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday gave the Biden administration the OK to terminate the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” … Read More

U.S. begins returning migrants to Mexican border city under rebooted Trump-era policy

MEXICO CITY, Jan 5 (Reuters) – The United States on Wednesday began returning migrants to the Mexican city of Tijuana in an restart of a Trump-era program that forces asylum seekers to wait for U.S. court hearings in Mexico, Mexican … Read More

Joe Biden Struggles With Trump-Era Policy As US Returns Mexican Migrants

The United States and Mexico last month agreed to relaunch the controversial scheme known as Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), in keeping with a US federal court order. Mexico City: The United States on Wednesday began returning migrants to the Mexican … Read More

In Tapachula, Thousands of Haitian Migrants Wait to Be Resettled

Migrants caught in limbo in southern Mexico must contend with dismal living conditions, precarious status, and a void of official information surrounding their fate. “Don’t abandon us here,” a man says angrily as his voice breaks. He is surrounded by … Read More

Biden Border Coordinator Roberta Jacobson stepping down

Her position was always intended to last 100 days, which expires at the end of the month. The Biden administration’s Southern Border coordinator will step down at the end of the month as officials continue to struggle with a large influx of migrants trying to enter … Read More

A renewed surge of migration from Central America could pose early test for a President Biden

Vice President Joe Biden meets with Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina in Guatemala City in June 2014. Biden traveled to Central America in hopes of slowing the flood of child migrants crossing the U.S. border.   –(Saul Martinez / EPA) WASHINGTON —  … Read More

Future of border wall about to be handed over to voters

In Yuma, a plaque with the name of Donald Trump commemorates the 100th mile of the new border wall. Joe Biden has said he will stop construction but has not said he would tear it down. When voters cast their … Read More

Will We See a ‘Biden Effect’ at the Border?

Migrants being floated over the Rio Suchiate border from Guatemala to Mexico, January 2020, where they were required to apply for Mexican asylum if they want to stay. Photo by Todd Bensman. A few months after President Donald Trump’s 2016 … Read More

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