On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Biden administration must comply with a lower court’s ruling to reinstate former President Donald Trump’s policy that required many asylum-seekers to wait outside the United States for their cases to be decided.
The Biden administration had asked the court to put on hold a federal judge’s order to immediately restart the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) but U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ruled earlier this month that the administration did not provide an adequate reason for getting rid of the policy, and that its procedures regarding asylum-seekers who enter the country were unlawful. The court wrote in an unsigned order on Aug. 24 that the Biden administration failed to show that it hadn’t acted in an “arbitrary and capricious” manner when it rescinded the policy.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott today issued a statement about the reinstated policy: