In 2020, Title 42 paused all asylum proceedings at the border as a tool to slow the spread of COVID. But two years later, the intentions behind this policy are clear: it was never really about COVID. As long as this farcical policy, spurred on by COVID and maintained by activist […]
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Title 42 to stay in place; NM Immigrant Law Center upset with the decision
Title 42 is staying in place despite the Biden administration’s attempt to roll back the health order put in place in March 2020. A Louisiana judge ruled asylum seekers at the border will stay at the border.There’s been a lot of back and forth on whether or not Title 42 […]
Title 42 and its Impact on Migrant Families
Introduction Title 42 of the Public Health Services Act is a public health authority that authorizes the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to suspend entry of individuals into the U.S. to protect public health. This authority was implemented by the Trump Administration in March 2020 […]
Family sues to end Title 42 in border states that aren’t challenging its May 23 rollback
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — Innovation Law Lab, an immigrant advocacy organization, and a family from El Salvador filed a motion to intervene in a federal lawsuit over the Biden administration’s order to end Title 42. It comes on the heels of a federal district court judge issuing a temporary […]
Border commissioner: End of Title 42 still leaves effective immigration law | Subscriber
On a trip to Tucson last week, Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Chris Magnus sat down with the Arizona Daily Star to talk about the end of Title 42, apprehending drugs at the border, accountability within the agency, migrant deaths at the border and more. Planning for anything As the […]
What is Title 42, the COVID-19 immigration policy Democrats want Biden to end?
Despite making some changes to U.S. border policy, the Biden administration for over a year maintained the most sweeping border restriction enacted by former President Donald Trump: a pandemic-era order known as Title 42 that has led to the quick deportation of hundreds of thousands of migrants in two years. […]
Democrats risk turning off base by embracing Title 42, immigration advocates say : NPR
Border Patrol agents detain a group of migrants in El Paso, Texas, near the border wall after they entered the U.S. from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in February. Herika Martinez/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Herika Martinez/AFP via Getty Images Border Patrol agents detain a group of migrants in […]
Biden is ending Title 42, a controversial pandemic border policy
The Biden administration announced Friday that it’s lifting controversial pandemic-related border restrictions under which the US has expelled thousands of migrants without giving them access to their legal right to apply for asylum. The so-called Title 42 policy, first enacted by the Trump administration in March 2020 at the outset […]
Opinion | What Both Sides Get Wrong About Title 42
Proponents of keeping Title 42 in place assert that the quick expulsions are needed because they give officials greater ability to intercept and turn back more migrants. A recent report from the Migration Policy Institute notes that Title 42 expulsions can take as little as 15 minutes, while removals under […]
Biden is defending Trump’s Title 42 policy, family separations in court
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President Joe Biden’s administration is defending two of his predecessor’s more inhumane immigration policies in court: pandemic-related border restrictions and family separations. The Department of Justice is actively fighting in federal court for border restrictions that have barred most asylum seekers from entering the US. In separate federal cases, it […]