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by Christian Britschgi
Reason.com
Immigration activists have had it with President Joe Biden’s increasing willingness to play the role of deporter in chief. Dozens of them stormed out of a virtual meeting with White House officials in protest of the administration’s revival of the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), reports Politico.
MPP, known informally as “Remain in Mexico,” was a program started under President Donald Trump. It required asylum seekers to stay in Mexico while waiting for U.S. immigration court hearings.
The program proved controversial. Critics claimed it violates immigrants’ rights under domestic and international law to claim asylum on U.S. soil, and that it required 70,000 migrants to wait for their court hearings in tent cities in dangerous Mexican border towns. The Biden administration ended the program in June. But a federal judge, in response to a lawsuit brought by Missouri and Texas, ordered that it be reinstated.