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Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday December 17, 2022, p. 8
Yellow. District Judge Matthew Kacsmary in Texas temporarily blocked the US government from ending a policy by former President Donald Trump that requires asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for their hearings in US immigration courts.
Kacsmaryk on Thursday put the initiative’s cancellation on hold pending legal appeals from Texas and Missouri, but did not order its reinstatement. The impact of the decision on the program was not immediately clear.
It is common sense policy to prevent people from entering our country illegally.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted after the ruling. Texas wins again, for now
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The ruling could be a temporary setback for the Joe Biden administration, which could appeal. An email requesting comment to the Department of Homeland Security did not get an immediate response.
Meanwhile, a federal appeals court for the District of Columbia Circuit yesterday dismissed a request by Republican governors to cancel or postpone the suspension of title 42, an anti-covid health rule that allows the almost immediate expulsion of migrants at the border with Mexico. , according to the court ruling. The US authorities expelled the vast majority of families and adults at the border, invoking this rule inherited from the time of former Republican President Donald Trump.
Humanitarian shelter for asylum seekers
Border Patrol personnel announced that yesterday morning they received hundreds of migrants who were on the banks of the Rio Grande to apply for asylum in the United States, with the warning that they would be treated for humanitarian reasons, since prevailing temperatures of three degrees below zero; however, they clarified that this did not mean that they would be granted permission to live in the neighboring country to the north.
The migrants, who remained lined up on the US side, near the black bridge, were received by Customs and Border Protection agents, who took them in vans to a detention center to process their documents.
With information from Rubén Villalpando, correspondent
