A growing number of Democratic leaders are opposing the Biden admin.'s decision to end a public health rule that has blocked more than 1.7 million attempts to cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Raphael Warnock of Georgia and Mark Kelly of Arizona, who have broken with Biden over ending the immigration restriction. Of those lawmakers, Hassan, Warnock and Kelly are also up for re-election this year.
Kelly called the decision to end Title 42 without a mitigation plan"wrong" and"unacceptable" in a statement this month, warning that the “lack of a plan to deal with this crisis will further strain our border communities.”“We need to have a plan in place to make sure we’re keeping asylum-seekers and people in the U.S. safe before we lift Title 42,” Wisconsin Democratic Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, who is running to unseat Republican Sen.
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, a Democrat who is running for the Senate seat being vacated by Republican Pat Toomey, who is retiring, echoed the sentiment, saying, “We should not end title 42 until we have a detailed plan in place.”Beto O’Rourke, a former Democratic presidential candidate who will
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