Remain in Mexico bill could be first across Trump's desk in new term

A bill to codify President-elect Donald Trump's first-term Remain in Mexico policy could be the first one across his desk after he takes office, if a group of House Republicans led by first-term Rep. Brandon Gill (TX) has its way.

The bill would require that DHS reinstate the Migrant Protection Protocols, more commonly known as Remain In Mexico.

"The American people gave President Trump and Republicans a mandate to secure the border, and Congress must pass the Remain In Mexico Act as a first step to secure our border and fix the problems Democrats created in our country," Gill told Fox News Digital.

The original policy from 2019 required illegal immigrants seeking asylum to wait for their hearings in Mexico rather than inside the U.S.

Because waiting in Mexico is disfavored or believed unsafe by many migrants, the policy led to a drop in those seeking asylum.

Biden tried to halt the program, but a judge ruled in 2022 that he could not. ICE simply stopped using it anyhow at that point.