The Biden administration formally dismantled a Trump-era immigration policy that had forced tens of thousands of asylum-seekers to live in Mexico while they waited for their day in court.

President Joe Biden first suspended the Migrant Protection Protocols program, known as the Remain in Mexico policy, in his first days in office in January. The Department of Homeland Security, which was responsible for implementing it, instructed employees in a memo Tuesday that the program was defunct, a move that has been expected.

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