June 21, 2021
The U.S. Supreme Court undid two lower court rulings that blocked a Trump-era asylum policy Monday, deeming an injunction on the Migrant Protection Protocols moot three weeks after President Joe Biden formally ended the program.
June 16, 2021
Texas, Missouri and Arizona told the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday that they should be allowed to intervene in a lawsuit over the Trump-era "Remain in Mexico" program despite the Biden administration's move to formally end the policy.
June 14, 2021
Legal services providers urged the U.S. Supreme Court to keep intact a lower court block on the now-defunct "Remain in Mexico" program, saying the Biden administration couldn't easily rid itself of the court order.
May 19, 2021
The attorneys general of Texas, Missouri and Arizona urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to allow them to intervene in a lawsuit to reinstate the Trump-era policy forcing asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico during their immigration proceedings, arguing they should be allowed to defend the policy since the Biden administration won't.
February 03, 2021
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday canceled oral arguments in suits challenging former President Donald Trump's diversion of $2.5 billion in defense funding for border wall construction and a policy forcing asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico while their immigration cases proceed.
February 01, 2021
The Biden administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to cancel upcoming oral arguments in two cases challenging funding for the U.S.-Mexico border wall and the Migrant Protection Protocols, a Trump-era policy forcing asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims are being processed.
January 22, 2021
The American Bar Association renewed its call to end the "Remain in Mexico" program in a U.S. Supreme Court brief, telling the justices that affirming the policy would amount to "trampling" on multiple federal laws and legal ethics.
January 03, 2021
The incoming Biden administration will inherit a mountain of litigation challenging the Trump administration's immigration policies, from "Remain in Mexico" to immigration detention. Here, Law360 breaks down the cases to watch, at the U.S. Supreme Court and below, in 2021.
October 19, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up challenges to the Trump administration's decision to divert funds to finance the president's long-promised border wall and its policy forcing asylum-seekers to wait out their immigration court proceedings in Mexico.
July 16, 2020
Migrants and advocacy groups have fired back at the federal government's bid to overturn the Ninth Circuit's block on a policy that makes asylum-seekers wait in Mexico, telling the U.S. Supreme Court that the COVID-19 pandemic made the case moot.