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Immigration,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Mar. 10, 2020

9th Circuit halts Trump's 'remain In Mexico' policy, and then reverses itself

Last month the 9th Circuit halted the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” asylum policy, which was one of the cornerstones of the administration’s hardline immigration policies, and then reversed itself hours later and then reversed itself in part again.

Nandini P. Nair

Partner
Greenspoon Marder

Nandini is a partner in the Immigration and Naturalization practice group at. She focuses her practice on analysis and processing of U.S. visas, employment-based and family-based applications, naturalization applications and other immigration benefits, as well as, immigration strategy and corporate policy development, training and compliance, immigration consequences of mergers, acquisitions and other corporate changes.

On Feb. 28, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals halted the Trump administration's "remain in Mexico" asylum policy, which was one of the cornerstones of the administration's hardline immigration policies, and then reversed itself hours later and then reversed itself in part again.

The policy known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, or "MPP," has required tens of thousands of refugees and asylum-seekers to cross back and remain i...

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