to restore rights to humanitarian protections that have been passed by congress into law. and yet we re seeing basically more of the same, and the expansion or the reintroduction program and the expansion of it as an example of that. of course the administration did face this court order that required them to put the program back into place, but the expansion which extends beyond just spanish speakers to people from other countries, you know, it really calls into question what the administration is actually going to do, and it has a lot of democrats saying, hey, i feel like i voted for a new process, a more, you know a more safe process and instead very little is changing. right. and katelyn, i do want to loop back and pick up on that political question. but before we do, taylor, what does this mean for the people you represent? i mean, it s been absolutely devastating. we expected that the democrats would do the right thing, that they would restore asylum on the southern border,
people a fair chance to seek protection as our laws require. and instead we re seeing an expansion of the program and this disingenuous lie over and over again the administration s hands were tied, they have no other option to comply with this court order. when the judge left it open to the possibility of rule making, they could have done other things, they could have fought harder. but instead they re using it as political leverage to say oh, we had to do it because of the court order when that s not true and not accurate, and there hawse not been enough push back there. instead we re expanding the program and putting haitians in it as well. katelyn, what legal or legislative options are available for the biden administration to officially end this program? well, so here s the problem that the biden administration faces is that i think that, you know, the last administration president trump really underscored this misnomer, this idea that a lot of people seem to have that the pres
attitude. and even in his governing style, the signs of the autocrat, the wanna be autocrat, he s had to be sued to do that. you see his administration engaged in open warfare on members of the media, the press, the associated press. so as someone like you who shares cuban-american ancestry this is something we re accustomed to seeing in totalitarian countries, a private militia only accountable in this case to ron desantis the governor, not the pent good-bye. far outside the chain of command. and as i said before this is literally a page out of the dictator s play book. i think it s a chilling development for florida and for the country. all right, thank you both so much. ahead, the return and expansion of remain in mexico. what will it take to end the program? plus an intimate look what it is like to be undocumented in this country. an author and her truly american
floridians due to covid, which i think shows a callousness in attitude. and even in his governing style, the signs of the autocrat, the wanna be autocrat, he s had to be sued to do that. you see his administration engaged in open warfare on members of the media, the press, the associated press. so as someone like you who shares cuban-american ancestry this is something we re accustomed to seeing in totalitarian countries, a private militia only accountable in this case to ron desantis the governor, not the pent good-bye. far outside the chain of command. and as i said before this is literally a page out of the dictator s play book. i think it s a chilling development for florida and for the country. all right, thank you both so much. ahead, the return and expansion of remain in mexico. what will it take to end the program? plus an intimate look what it is like to be undocumented in this country. an author and her truly american story after this quick break.
attacks on migrants in the program during the trump administration. in this coming monday the remain in mexico policy will be reinstated in compliance with a federal court order from texasch the biden administration says it s improved the policy with improved access to legal help and a speedier court hearing process. the administration s also expanding the policy s eligibility. a former dhs official telling buzzfeed the expansion has such a broad scope that it now includes migrants from the entire western hemisphere. with me now immigration attorney taylor leve and also with me katelyn dickerson, a staff writer for the atlantic. kaitlyn, how does the administration square the expansion of the remain in mexico policy with its claims it ultimately wants to end it? they really can t square the two, and that s the problem. is that the biden administration has been very vocal about wanting to create what they call a more humane immigration system