WASHINGTON, March 30 (EFE) – The government of President Joe Biden is preparing to end the controversial use of health care regulation known as Title 42 next May for the expedited expulsion of immigrants crossing the Mexican border, national media reported Wednesday.
The Wall Street Journal quotes government officials who are aware of the issue and those who do not identify it as indicating that the measure, imposed two years ago, will cease to be used by the end of May.
The then President Donald Trump (2017-2021) applied this health regulation at the beginning of the Kovid-19 pandemic for the immediate expulsion of migrants arriving at the border. The Biden administration continued to use Title 42, for which more than 1.6 million migrants were expelled.
The suspension, announced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week, indicates that “there is no longer a serious threat” that migrants will enter Covid-19 into unjustified detention centers, the newspaper reported.
The CDC is conducting its own assessment of the risks to public health and the impact it has had on headline 42 since 2020, the agency’s spokeswoman Kathleen Conley was quoted as saying by CNN.
Applying this health standard “violates refugee laws, undermines public health, encourages racism,” said Eleanor Ars, director of Human Rights First.
“Every day when this policy remains in place, the Biden administration continues to bypass people who suffer from horrific and systematic human rights abuses,” he added.
Many Texas lawmakers, in turn, sent a letter to the Biden administration urging them to keep Title 42 in use and warning that border communities were already facing difficulties due to undocumented migration and would not be able to cope with the growth rate. Arrival of aliens.
For his part, Sen. Bill Hegert, a Republican from Tennessee, today introduced a bill that would allow the use of Title 42 to protect U.S. public health from the smuggling of deadly drugs such as fentanyl.
“We can not lose title 42, which is a necessary tool for border security, when an unprecedented number of Americans die from drug overdoses caused by illegal border crossings,” Hagert said in a statement.
Source: El Diario
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