The Biden administration is using a Trump-era rule to justify expelling asylum seekers before they have a chance to file a claim
Migrants cross the Rio Grande River near the Del Rio-Acuna Port of Entry towards Del Rio, Texas, U.S., on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021. Photo: Bloomberg via Getty Images Despite President Biden’s promises to take a more humanitarian approach to immigration than his predecessor, his administration deported more than 300 Haitian asylum seekers on Sunday — and plans to expel many more.
Over the weekend, around 3,300 Haitians in the Del Rio encampment were apprehended and either sent to detention centers or put on flights back home, said U.S. Border Patrol chief Raul Ortiz. The agency expects to remove the remaining asylum seekers within the week. The U.S. government is able to quickly expel migrants without giving them a chance to file their asylum claim because of a Trump-era CDC rule called Title 42. The directive, which was established in March 2020 and overrides all other federal laws, uses an obscure 1944 public-health statute to justify indefinitely closing the border to “nonessential travel,” even though the statute had never been used to regulate immigration before.
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