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A new movement argues that the lifting of Covid-19 next month will open the door to a wave of migrants in their states.
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By Miriam Jordan
Fifteen states have stepped in to verify a pandemic-related policy that allows the government to temporarily deport migrants arriving from Mexico, a prelude to Republican plans to push through new security measures at the southern border.
The movement to interfere, introduced Monday night in 15 states but one led by Republicans, seeks to delay a court order issued last week that would lift the deportation order, known as Title 42, on Dec. 21.
The Nov. 15 order through U. S. District Court Judge Emmet SullivanThe U. S. Department of Columbia’s U. S. Department of Columbia paves the way for migrants to seek asylum for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began in March 2020. The measure has been maintained despite considerations that its cancellation may lead to thousands more people traveling to the U. S. border. U. S. But Judge Sullivan concluded there was no explanation for why to continue the policy, which he said failed in spreading the coronavirus and forced migrants to return home. where some of them could face grave danger.
A 24-state Republican-led organization received a national court order in May to uphold the deportation policy after Biden’s administration announced plans to rescind it because the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decided it was no longer mandatory to protect public health.
The ruling, through the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, showed the states’ argument that lifting the order would cause them serious damage and chaos at the border. The case before Judge Sullivan, filed through the American Civil Liberties Union and several immigration organizations, made this earlier ruling questionable by focusing on the legality of the deportation policy of the proceedings to voluntarily terminate it.
Once back, the border has become a key political issue, and Title 42 policy was one of the first battlefronts. The GOP won a narrow majority in the House of Representatives midterm, and California Congressman Kevin McCarthy has said border security will be maintained. be one of your most sensible priorities. He said one of his first acts would be to introduce the law at the border.
In the new lawsuit filed Monday night, the states said federal officials “basically abandoned their defense of Title 42, and are unlikely to provide other arguments in support, let’s leave all arguments against the states. “
They accused Biden’s management of “surrendering” the case and said they interfered to appeal Judge Sullivan’s order.
But in fact, it is not transparent that Biden’s management is contemplating a pleasant order; Indeed, it requested a delay of its implementation until December 21, but did not specify whether it would also appeal.
The case was brought through the attorneys general of Arizona, Louisiana, Alabama, Alaska, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming.
He argues that even states that are on the border would be negatively affected by the suspension of the policy. “Wherever those aliens are found, they will impose monetary burdens on the states that host them without knowing it,” the movement said.
He said states also had a sovereign interest in “excluding other people with communicable diseases,” Judge Sullivan in his ruling noted that the number of migrants testing positive for the coronavirus was very low.
Lee Gelernt, the A. C. L. U. , the lawyer who filed the complaint with Judge Sullivan on behalf of the asylum-seeking migrants, said it was “hypocritical” for intervening states to ask for covid-19 restrictions for asylum seekers when they had opposed such restrictions in their own states in the past.
“You erroneously state that Title 42 can be used for general border enforcement,” Mr. Gelernt, “but this is a limited public suitability provision, and those states have not remotely demonstrated that they want Title 42 for reasons of public suitability. “
The pandemic order has a de facto tool for immigration enforcement. The U. S. Border Patrol The U. S. has carried out 2. 4 million deportations under this policy since it was implemented through the Trump administration. Those who are subject to it cannot apply for asylum and are transported by bus to Mexico or by plane to their home countries.
The lifting of the order may result in thousands more immigrants arriving at the border, Biden’s management predicted.
President Biden, who came to force promising a more humane immigration policy than his predecessor, dealt with an increasing number of people crossing the border, even with existing policies.
Border officials intercepted migrants nearly 2. 4 million times at the southern border in fiscal year 2022, which ended Sept. 30, the annual figure recorded. About 40% of encounters resulted in quick expulsions.
But the ban disproportionately affected Mexicans and Central Americans, and was applied unevenly. On many stretches of the border, the Mexican government, on the other hand, has refused to accept the return of families with young children and others from more remote countries. such as Venezuela, Cuba and India.
And while human rights advocates have chastised Biden’s administration for the public fitness measure to stem immigrant flows, the administration has recently expanded its use.
On October 12, the Homeland Security Decomponent announced that Venezuelans would be deported at the border under Title 42 as part of a new agreement with Mexico.
Earlier this month, Cuba agreed to settle for deportation flights from the United States. A record 221,000 Cubans were intercepted through U. S. border officials in fiscal year 2022, and the vast majority were released into the United States.
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