Immigration
Jul. 22, 2025
Circuit exempts ImmDef clients from Remain in Mexico
A divided 9th Circuit panel exempted a Los Angeles firm's clients from the revived Remain in Mexico policy, allowing them to stay in the U.S. while their asylum cases proceed in court.
A divided 9th Circuit panel ordered that Los Angeles' Immigrant Defenders Law Center's current and future clients are exempt from the Trump administration's Remain in Mexico program.
That will allow asylum-seeking clients of the center (ImmDef) to stay in the U.S. while their cases are heard and not be returned to Mexico by government agents, as is the current policy, lawyers said.
The order, posted Saturday, allows the government to partly resume its Remain i...
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