The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Monday that they will end implementation of the Migrant Protection Protocols Program (MPP). There will be no new enrollees in the program, and migrants currently waiting in Mexico will be permitted to enter the US for their next scheduled court dates.

According to DHS’s July MPP Cohort Report there were 5,764 migrants sent back to Mexico between the months of December and June. There were 9,653 people enrolled into the program in the same time frame, and there have been 3,411 people disenrolled from MPP as well.

DHS reported that they are “committed to ending the court-ordered implementation of MPP in a quick, and orderly, manner.” They also commented that “MPP has endemic flaws, imposes unjustifiable human costs, and pulls resources and personnel away from other priority efforts to secure our border.”

The US Supreme Court ruled June 30 that the Biden administration could end the MPP, commonly referred to as the “remain in Mexico” policy. The MPP was originally implemented in 2019 and allowed the federal government to return non-Mexican migrants to Mexico as they awaited their asylum hearings.

DHS has said that they will be releasing more information in the near future.