White House press secretary Jen Psaki explained the Biden administration's not-so-happy position on the situation at Monday's press briefing.
"Well, I would say first to all these people that it is not our preference to be reimplementing and reinstituting the Migrant Protection [Protocols program]. We are doing that because of a court order and legal requirement to do so, and that we have put in place a number of changes to make from the Department of Homeland Security to improve some humanitarian components."
President Joe Biden ended the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program throughout his opening days in office. The "Remain in Mexico" policy asks migrants to remain outside the United States as their asylum claims are being processed.
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It was only after the states of Texas and Missouri sued the Biden White House in federal court that they were ordered by the Supreme Court to return the protocols. Cooperation with Mexico has been brought up as a factor for consideration in how the Biden administration went about doing so.
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Psaki's response went on:
"But we still feel the program is inefficient, inhumane, and we are not ... we did not eagerly reimplement it, I should say. But in terms of people who are skeptics, we are absolutely committed to doing everything we can, as we are required by court order, to implement this, to take steps to ensure that there are—that we are injecting additional humanitarian considerations, and providing the assistance that we have promised to people who are participating in the program."
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Former President Donald Trump last week told Fox & Friends throughout an interview that Biden shouldn't have attempted ending it to begin with. The theme of his remarks was that the Biden White House could've done nothing, "gone to the beach," and that the nation would've been better off.
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As for migration matters in 2021, the Washington Examiner has a breakdown of where the hundreds of thousands of migrants came from, when Border Patrol encountered them at the United States - Mexico border.
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At the start of December, a deal between the US and Mexico was declared when it comes to the "root causes" angle of the border crisis prioritized by the current Biden administration.
Meanwhile, The Mexican government asked for the guarantee that asylum seekers will receive counsel and have their humanitarian claims processed within 180-days or 6 months.
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