The Supreme Court on Wednesday moved toward throwing out a case concerning former President Donald Trump's border wall funding.
The court in an unsigned order suspended the hearing for a case challenging Trump's use of federal funds for the southern border wall. The court did the same for a case concerning the Department of Homeland Security's Migrant Protection Protocols policies.
The decision came a day after the Biden administration asked the court to drop the border wall case, as well as a case about Trump's "remain in Mexico policy," which allowed the Department of Homeland Security to prevent non-Mexican asylum-seekers from crossing the border. The Biden administration told the court both cases were moot because the president signed orders repudiating Trump's policies.
The move came as President Biden seeks to wipe out Trump's immigration policies. Biden has signed a number of executive orders on immigration. These include a "reunification" team to bring together children and parents separated at the border, a push to include undocumented immigrants in census apportionment, and a reexamination of the legality in Trump's border wall funding.
Biden on Tuesday announced a strategy to deal with a massive influx of immigration from Central America, which promises to relocate "closer to home" people seeking asylum from unstable countries.
At the same time, Biden created the Task Force on New Americans, which aims to help immigrants adjust to the United States. As part of this plan, the DHS, the Justice Department, and the Department of Health and Human Services will be required to review the policies and regulations put in place by Trump.
Biden on his first day in office also rescinded Trump's so-called Muslim ban, which restricted travel from several majority-Muslim countries.
Throughout Trump's term, the Supreme Court handed the then-president several immigration wins. It upheld the Muslim ban in 2018. It also delivered decisions widely viewed as favorable to Trump for the "remain in Mexico policy" and Trump's ploy to exclude illegal immigrants from census apportionment.
