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Immigration

May 19, 2022

In San Diego, Remain in Mexico revamp is a due process disaster

A Nicaraguan asylum seeker who had been returned to Mexico with another asylum seeker I interviewed paid $3,000 to a person in Mexico claiming to be a U.S. immigration lawyer. The supposed attorney disappeared with the man’s money, leaving him to apply for asylum alone

Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the Biden administration’s defense of its termination of the Remain in Mexico (RMX) policy in Biden v. Texas, 21-954. As the Court considers the case, the administration remains under court order to reimplement the disastrous Trump administration policy, which requires asylum seekers and migrants to wait in Mexico for their U.S. immigration court proceedings. Since last month, I have been interviewing people subjected to RMX w...

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