By Dianne Solis
5:10 am on September 1, 2022 EDT
A fitness order similar to the COVID-19 pandemic known as Title has created a revolving door to the southwest border for some immigrants.
Migrants from countries such as Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras face immediate deportation.
Others in countries like Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua have to fight in the country’s congested immigration courts.
It was not intended to work that way in March 2020 when the pandemic order was set. But because there are no legal consequences for attempts to cross the border, some migrants are retreating again.
Nine out of 10 Mexicans captured through the Border Patrol this year were temporarily returned Title 42, according to U. S. data. USA Customs and Border Protection, the parent company of the Border Patrol.
The opposite is true for Cuban immigrants, who were allowed to enter the United States under the Regular Immigration Act about 97% of the time this year. But they will have to protect their instances in federal immigration courts, where the backlog is now $1. 9 million. Cubans have arrived in the United States this year in numbers that surpass the exodus of 125,000 from the port of Mariel in 1980.
Cubans, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans largely enter the United States under the Regular Immigration Act because the United States has poor diplomatic relations with those countries, said Adam Isacson, a security analyst at the Washington Office on Latin America.
The Mexican government also plays an important role. Of those deported in July, 99 percent came from 4 countries whose citizens Mexico allows to be deported across the border: Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, Isacson said in a recent report.
“Looking at the data, what I see is that we have the worst of both times,” said Theresa Cardinal Brown, executive director of immigration and cross-border policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, D. C. “We have higher degrees of Mexicans the migration is repeated from cruise ships. And we have this new phenomenon of migration from many other countries in the world. “
Title 42 published through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention amid a controversy that other people potentially inflamed with COVID-19 can still cross. The CDC lifted the order and set that date for May 23 of this year. But a lawsuit in Louisiana Federal court blocked it. This dress continues.
Meanwhile, Title 42 has been used more than 2 million times to temporarily deport some migrants. Immigration advocates accuse him of impeding due process, especially due process for asylum. Others say not all migrants arriving at the border seek asylum. for a job.
However, others argue that the logic of public fitness order, in the COVID-19 pandemic, no longer applies with the opening of so many economies.
Diane Solis. Dianne covers immigration and social justice issues. The laureate is an alumnus of the Wall Street Journal and a former foreign correspondent founded in Mexico. She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard and holds degrees in journalism from Northwestern University and California State University.