REMAIN in Mexico Act of 2021

Return Excessive Migrants and Asylees to International Neighbors in Mexico Act of 2021 or the REMAIN in Mexico Act of 2021

This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to implement the Migrant Protection Protocols as outlined in the January 25, 2019, memo titled Policy Guidance for Implementation of the Migrant Protection Protocols.

(The protocols generally required aliens who are not clearly admissible, including those seeking asylum, arriving by land along the U.S.-Mexico border to be returned to Mexico while their immigration proceedings are pending, rather than remain in the United States. On January 21, 2021, DHS stopped applying the protocols to newly-arrived individuals.)

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1259 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1259

 To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to continue to implement 
       the Migrant Protection Protocols, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 23, 2021

  Mr. Rosendale (for himself, Mr. Arrington, Mr. Biggs, Mr. Bishop of 
   North Carolina, Mr. Brooks, Mr. Gaetz, Mr. Gosar, Mrs. Greene of 
Georgia, Mr. Harris, Ms. Herrell, Mr. McClintock, Mr. Perry, Mr. Posey, 
Mr. Roy, Mr. Steube, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Norman, Mrs. Boebert, Mr. 
     Hice of Georgia, Mr. Rice of South Carolina, and Mr. Palazzo) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to continue to implement 
       the Migrant Protection Protocols, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Return Excessive Migrants and 
Asylees to International Neighbors in Mexico Act of 2021'' or the 
``REMAIN in Mexico Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. MIGRANT PROTECTION PROTOCOLS.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of 
Homeland Security shall implement the Migrant Protection Protocols in 
accordance with the memorandum of Secretary of Homeland Security 
Nielsen entitled ``Policy Guidance for Implementation of the Migrant 
Protection Protocols'', dated January 25, 2019.
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