'Only the coyotes profiteering off of people seeking protection have reason to celebrate this ill-reasoned ruling,' says LIRSorg's KrishVignarajah in response to a federal judge's injunction that blocks Biden from ending Title 42.
blocking the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden from lifting Title 42, a Trump-era public health order that both presidents have invoked to deport around two million asylum-seekers under the pretext of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Judge Robert Summerhays of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana—an appointee of then-President Donald Trump—concurred with 24 Republican-controlled states' assertion that the Biden administration's decision to terminate the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rule"violates the Administrative Procedures Act" because it"failed to consider the effects of a Title 42 termination on immigration enforcement and the states.
"President Biden could have ended Title 42 and all of Trump's inhumane and immoral policies as soon as he took office in January 2021 with the flick of a pen," she continued,"but instead, he surrounded himself with centrist advisers who coddled his fears on immigration reform and embraced deterrence as their central priority on immigration."
First implemented by the Trump administration in March 2020 at the pandemic's onset, Title 42—a provision of the Public Health Safety Act allowing the government to prohibit entry into the U.S. of people who could pose health risks—was continued by Biden.a March announcement that the White House would end the policy on May 23.by Sen. James Lankford —and co-sponsored by right-wing Democrats including Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly and Rep. Henry Cuellar —to codify Title 42.
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