Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Friday, December 3rd. I'm Nyla Budu. Here's

what we're watching today. The tally of Democrats retiring from the House keeps climbing. Plus

the new trend of IV treatments at spots. But first, today's one big thing. Trump's

remain in Mexico policy is back. The Biden administration has reached a deal with Mexico

to restart former President Trump's remain in Mexico program, also known as the migrant

protection protocol at the border. Starting this Monday, asylum seekers will once again have

to wait outside the U.S. while their claims are being processed.

Def Kite covers politics and immigration for Axios and is here with the latest.

Staff, this was a controversial program when President Trump started it. Why is President

Biden reinstating it? The short answer is that the courts are forcing the administration

to restart this. There's a lawsuit over the way that they ended remain in Mexico earlier

this year. And the result was that they're now forced, administration is forced to restart

this program. At the same time, the Biden administration has been working at trying to

end the program the right way. So it was one of those tricky situations where the way

that they tried to end the program wasn't correct. So they are trying again, they're pursuing

other ways of correctly ending remain in Mexico. But they've also been working to restart it

at the same time and trying to make it a little bit better for migrants.

And when the program restarts, will it be the same as it was before or will there be changes?

There are a few changes to the program this time around and those changes were notably

requested from Mexico. So one thing in all of this is that the US can restart the policy but

really is very dependent on Mexico to agree to cooperate and hosting the silent seekers on its

soil. So Mexico has really been the one asking for a lot of changes to the program to make it more

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