The Biden administration on Friday moved again to end the Trump-era “Remain-in-Mexico” policy, even as it is re-implementing it in response to a court order – and admitted that it “likely” contributed to reduced illegal migration at the southern border.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a memo, obtained by The Wall Street Journal, that the benefits of the program, officially called the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) “are far outweighed by the costs of continuing to use the program on a programmatic basis, in whatever form” and that he is terminating the program.
