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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Aug 10, 2022

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Monday that it has ended the Trump-era policy requiring asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration courts, the Associated Press reports. The move came just hours after a federal judge in Texas lifted an injunction that has kept the Biden administration from eliminating the program. The program will be unwound in a “quick, and orderly manner,” the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said in a statement. Questions still remain about whether those whose claims have been denied or dismissed will get a second chance, and if those currently in Mexico under the policy will be allowed to return to the states sooner. Homeland Security said it will provide additional information “in the coming days.”