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Biden v. Texas: The Case Before the Supreme Court

The lower courts challenging President Biden’s attempt to wind-down Remain in Mexico (MPP) are unfairly hampering the Administration from fulfilling its campaign promises to create a nation of laws and policies that value fairness, dignity, and equality. We need the Supreme Court, in Biden v. Texas, to make clear that any presidential administration should have the freedom to implement its own policies.

Bipartisan Briefs Filed: Biden v. Texas

The lower courts challenging President Biden’s attempt to wind-down Remain in Mexico (MPP) are unfairly hampering the Administration from fulfilling its campaign promises to create a nation of laws and policies that value fairness, dignity, and equality. This case is so critical that 11 briefs were filed in support of the Biden Administration’s position reflecting different impacts.

 

What's at Stake

In Biden v. Texas, the Supreme Court will decide whether the Biden Administration can exercise its discretionary control of border policy to discontinue the Remain in Mexico program (MPP). Under Remain in Mexico, the Trump Administration returned asylum seekers to (or stopped them in) Mexico. After extensive review following President Biden’s inauguration, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) terminated the policy in July 2021. DHS’s agency review concluded that Remain in Mexico had left asylum seekers in inhumane conditions, likely turned away legitimate asylum seekers, and put unnecessary strain on the U.S.–Mexico relationship.

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Delivering permanent protections #ForOurFamilies

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that DACA is unlawful, creating a crisis that would damage the U.S. economy and millions of U.S. families, should DACA end and renewals be halted. The end of DACA will impact over 600,000 DACA recipients — resulting in an average of 5,000 DACA recipients falling out of status and losing work authorization every single week over the next two years. Join us as we continue our work to pass legislation that protects dreamers and DACA recipients.

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Congress Must Act Now to Protect Dreamers

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that DACA is unlawful.

 

For DACA recipients like Maria who have built lives in the United States over years and decades, the Fifth Circuit ruling is a disaster. This deeply disappointing decision makes even more clear the fate of DACA in the courts — and without legislation protecting DACA recipients passing this year, we could see over 600,000 DACA recipients lose work authorization, lose protection from deportation, and have their lives thrown into chaos in the very near future.

DACA in the Courts

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that DACA is unlawful. This ruling has generated significant confusion, leading some to believe that DACA might be temporarily safe, but this is false. The 5th Circuit’s negative, harmful ruling threatens all DACA recipients, as well as their families, communities, and businesses across the country. The only solution is Congress passing legislation this year to protect Dreamers. Eligible DACA recipients should consider renewing their protections as soon as they are able.

Border & Asylum

Dignity for our Families Seeking Asylum: End Family Separation at the Border

Under the Biden Administration, America can stop family separation at the border and repair the harm of the family separation policy, to bring dignity to all our families.

Welcoming those seeking refuge from persecution is embedded in our nation’s laws, honoring the legacy of our Bill of Rights. Not only do families and children have a legal right to apply for asylum in the United States, but welcoming them together and with dignity is also the right thing to do and will help keep families and communities safe.

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A Dignified Asylum System #ForOurFamilies

It is long past the time to end family separation at the border and fix our failed asylum system. The Trump Administration took a failed immigration system and made it worse. Now under the Biden Administration, we have the opportunity to undo the cruelty and bring dignity to families trying to seek asylum.

The Trump Administration’s primary goal was to treat families seeking humanitarian protections, like asylum, so terribly that not only would they choose to return to the very places where their lives were in danger, but future people seeking asylum would be deterred by this inhumane treatment from even trying.

Trump used the COVID-19 pandemic as a pretext to continue his attacks on our legal asylum system. The Trump administration used policies like Remain in Mexico, Zero Tolerance family separation, Title 42, third-country agreements, the transit ban and metering, and dozens of others to both restrict immigration at the border and eliminate the entire asylum system. Parents at the border were also forced into a false binary choice: separating from their children or waiving their childrens’ Flores Settlement rights and remaining incarcerated together.

President Biden’s executive orders were welcomed and transformative news, and included an end to MPP, also known as the “Remain in Mexico,” policy, which forced tens of thousands of migrants and children fleeing violence and persecution to remain trapped in Mexico in inhumane conditions in tents for months and years, all within a few feet of the border. Approximately 25,000 individuals in MPP continue to have active cases.

In addition to the important series of steps to undo current systems keeping families trapped at the border, the Biden Administration announced a taskforce to reunify families. Family separation at the border tore more than 5,000 children away from their parents, and it is time to correct a grave wrong done to their families. And, the Biden Administration announced new steps they would be taking to increase the ability for future migrants to apply for humanitarian protections closer to home, and to increase the capacity of countries across the western hemisphere to better protect and care for migrants.

Changes are needed immediately as families continue to wait in desperation and under difficult conditions at the border. This must include an immediate halt to the deportation and expulsion of Black immigrants seeking asylum trapped in a failed system. Continued, urgent action must also include the proposed efforts to expeditiously expand legal migration pathways through dedicated refugee admission goals, family reunification programs, the expansion of existing employment programs, and a complete transformation of the asylum system.

The Biden Administration must bring order, an end to family separation, and dignity at the border #ForOurFamilies.

Border & Asylum

Take the Pledge: Stop Family Separation at the Border and Restore Dignity

We can have an immigration system that actually works and focuses on keeping families together, while prioritizing immigrants’ dignity to work, live, and establish the U.S. as their home.

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