The U.S. has been using a public health rule intended to limit the spread of disease to expel migrants seeking asylum since the pandemic began
A Venezuelan migrant warms her hands over a campfire outside her makeshift tent refusing to be relocated to a refugee shelter, in Matamoros, Mexico, Friday, Dec. 23, 2022. Migrants are waiting along the U.S.-Mexico border on a pending U.S. Supreme Court decision on asylum restrictions. WASHINGTON — — Since the pandemic began, the United States has been using a public health rule designed to limit the spread of disease to expel asylum-seekers on the southern border.
are seeking to enter the country through the southern border and with Republicans intent on making immigration a key issue when they take control of the House in January.In March 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an order limiting migration across the southern and northern borders, saying it was necessary to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. The virus was ravaging the U.S.
That sparked Republican-leaning states to file their own lawsuit aimed at keeping Title 42 in place. The states argued that ending the rule would lead to a surge in migrants to their states that would in turn take a toll on their services. That argument found favor with a Trump-appointed judge in Louisiana who ordered keeping the restrictions in place.
Then a group of conservative states tried to intervene to keep Title 42 in place. They argued that the cancellation of pandemic-era policy"will cause an enormous disaster at the border" and the additional migrants will increase the states' costs for law enforcement, education and health care. They've also argued that they had to intervene after the federal government did not push to keep Title 42 in place. The case has gone all the way up to the U.S.
The Department of Homeland Security said in a memo outlining their preparations for the end of Title 42's use that the current system is not designed “to handle the current volume of migration nor the increased volume we expect over the coming weeks and months.”
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