Supreme Court allows revival of Trump administration's 'Remain in Mexico' policy

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the Biden administration's request to pause a lower court's order restoring the Trump administration's "Remain in Mexico" immigration policy.

The Supreme Court's three liberal justices voiced their dissent and said they would have granted the request to block the lower court's order, CNN reports.

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President Biden suspended the policy when he first took office and later ended it, causing Texas and Missouri to sue the administration in an attempt to keep the policy in place. Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee, ruled that the Biden administration violated the Administrative Procedure Act when it ended the policy, and he ordered its revival. The Biden administration in turn filed a petition to the Supreme Court last week, arguing that bringing the policy back "would result in irreparable harm."

Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.