Texas and Missouri sue Biden administration for ending ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy

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Texas and Missouri filed suit against the Biden administration on Tuesday, claiming injury resulting from President Joe Biden’s revocation of the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols, commonly known as the “remain in Mexico” policy.

The two Republican-led states asked a federal court to declare the Biden administration’s decision to end MPP, a program instituted in 2019 to keep asylum-seekers in Mexico as they awaited hearings to assess their claims, as “unlawful” and to prevent the administration from enforcing it.

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