Title 42 Expires Tonight At Midnight/Title 42 Explained…
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DHS Secretary Mayorkas: “Tonight at 11:59pm ET, the pandemic-era Title 42 public health order will end…We are clear-eyed about the challenges we are likely to face in the days and weeks ahead and we are ready to meet them.” in the video published on May 11, 2023, by C-SPAN, as “DHS Secretary on End of Title 42“, below:
The United States is already seeing high number of border encounters in certain areas, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Thursday, May 11, 2023, ahead of a COVID-19 immigration restriction called Title 42’s midnight expiration, in the video published on May 11, 2023, by Reuters, as “US border facilities strained by new arrivals, says Mayorkas“, below:
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas is expected to join the White House briefing as a COVID-era restriction known as Title 42 is lifted. The shift has drawn tens of thousands of migrants to the U.S.-Mexico border, straining local communities and intensifying political divisions, in the video published on May 11, 2023, by Reuters, as “LIVE: Top US border official speaks while migrants gather at the border as Title 42 expires“, below:
Southern border towns are bracing for a surge in migrants as the pandemic-era Title 42 is set to expire and ABC News’ Mireya Villarreal explains, in the video published on May 11, 2023, by Good Morning America, as “Immigration Policy Title 42 is set to expire“, below:
This is a live look at the US Mexico Border in El Paso. All those people are waiting to cross the border when Title 42 ends at 11:59 tonight, in the video published on May 11, 2023, by WUSA9, as “US prepares for surge of migrants as end of Title 42 spells humanitarian crisis“, below:
National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd claims they haven’t been briefed by the Biden administration on a post-Title 42 border security plan, in the video published on May 10, 2023, by Fox Business, by “‘THE DAM IS ABOUT TO BREAK’: Migrant surge looms over southern border“, below:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it will begin a crackdown on illegal border crossings in El Paso, Texas, starting Tuesday ahead of the pandemic-era program Title 42, which expires later this week. That expiration has state officials worried about a possible surge of migrants. CBS News correspondent Manuel Bojorquez has more, in the video published on May 9, 2023, by CBS News, as “U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents start crackdown on illegal migrants amid end of Title 42“, below:
Thousands of migrants are gathering at the U.S.-Mexico border, hoping to claim asylum once Title 42 ends May 11. The pandemic era restriction ends Thursday and preparations have been underway to prepare for a continued surge at the border. Title 42 has been in place for more than three years. It was designed as a way to restrict people from entering the United States as a way to prevent COVID. Once it expires, more people will have the opportunity to seek asylum in the U.S. President Biden is deploying 1,500 troops to the southern border this week in preparation for the influx. The administration is also expanding appointments at processing centers and allowing people to apply for asylum in their home countries to see if they’ll be allowed in before making the treacherous journey to the U.S. It’s estimated up to 10,000 migrants could enter the southern border every day once Title 42 is lifted, in the video published on May 8, 2023, by CBS 8 San Diego, as “Title 42 | For the migrants allowed into the U.S. where will they go?” below:
Chicago’s shelter system is bursting at the seams and now the mayor wants to open the old South Shore High School to newly arriving migrants, in the video published on May 5, 2023, by WGN News, as “City meeting over housing migrants turns heated“, below:
What Is Title 42?
President Joe Biden visited the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday for the first time as president, amid controversy and backlash about the administration’s allocation of resources to the southern border. The visit came days after he announced a new, restrictive policy that would essentially expand an immigration program referred to as Title 42, despite promising to end the program when he ran for office.Title 42 was created to address public health and social welfare and grants the government the ability to take emergency action in numerous ways, including to “stop the introduction of communicable diseases.” While the code has been in place for decades, it was used widely beginning in March 2020 by the administration of then-President Donald Trump in order to regulate border crossings under the premise of increased COVID-19 precautions. The Trump administration used Title 42 to “essentially to override immigration law that allowed people to ask for asylum after entering illegally and said we could send them back” across the border, arguing that taking migrants into custody in federal facilities would create more of a public health risk, Theresa Cardinal Brown with the Bipartisan Policy Center told the PBS NewsHour’s Nicole Ellis in a conversation. This video was produced by Casey Kuhn, Nicole Ellis, Yasmeen Alamiri and Julia Griffin. Video and photos by Reuters and the Associated Press, in the video published on Jan 12, 2023, by PBS NewsHour, as “What is Title 42 and what does it mean for immigration at the southern border?” below:
The Biden administration recently announced it plans to end a Trump-era policy known as Title 42, which allowed the US to quickly expel migrants to their country of origin or Mexican border towns and denied them a chance at asylum, in the video published on May 2, 2023, by Voice of America, as “What Is Title 42?” below:
Immigration advocates in Florida raised concerns over SB 1718, in the video publilshed on May 11, 2023, by WKMG News 6 ClickOrlando, as “Immigration advocates in Florida raise concerns over SB 1718“, below:
To better understand what Title 42 expulsion is all about, please refer to excerpt from wikipedia, in italics, below:
Title 42 expulsions are removals by the U.S. government of persons who have recently been in a country where a communicable disease was present. The extent of authority for contagion-related expulsions is set out by law in 42 U.S.C. § 265. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump administration used this provision (section 265) to generally block land entry for many migrants. This practice has been continued by the Biden administration with expansion.[1] Title 42 of the United States Code includes numerous sections dealing with public health, social welfare, and civil rights, but, in the context of immigration, the phrase “Title 42” came to be used to refer specifically to expulsions under section 265.
The program allows the U.S. Border Patrol and U.S. Customs and Border Protection to prohibit the entry of persons who potentially pose a health risk by being subject to previously-announced travel restrictions or because by unlawfully entering the country to bypass health-screening measures.[2][3] Its use was implemented under the Trump administration and has continued under the Biden administration to prohibit asylum seekers from lawfully petitioning for asylum in the United States.[4] Persons subject to the order are not held in congregate areas for processing and are instead immediately expelled to their country of last transit.[3] If they are unable to be returned to the country of last transit (because that country will not accept them due to their nationality), the Border Patrol will work with its interagency partners to expel the person to their country of origin.[3] Expulsions under Title 42 are not based on immigration status and are tracked separately from immigration.[3] In some cases, this is not possible, and migrants may be expelled to a third country that will accept them based on previous residency.[5] At the discretion of the administration, Title 42 can be used even for people who would normally have temporary protected status based on their country of origin.[6]
Title 42 was unenforceable from November 15, 2022, when D.C. federal judge Emmet G. Sullivan ruled that the policy is a violation of the Administrative Procedure Act,[7] until December 19 when the Chief Justice of the United States, John Roberts, issued a temporary hold on Sullivan’s ruling,[8] followed by the full court in a 5–4 vote on December 27.[9] In the days preceding the policy’s repeal on 11 May 2023, the number of migrants crossing the border increased. More than 10,000 illegal border crossers were apprehended daily between 8 and 9 May, according to Brandon Judd, president of the Border Patrol union.[10]
Code
Title 42 of the United States Code, Chapter 6A, Subchapter II, Part G, Section 265 states:[11]
- §265. “Suspension of entries and imports from designated places to prevent spread of communicable diseases
- Whenever the Surgeon General determines that by reason of the existence of any communicable disease in a foreign country there is serious danger of the introduction of such disease into the United States, and that this danger is so increased by the introduction of persons or property from such country that a suspension of the right to introduce such persons and property is required in the interest of the public health, the Surgeon General, in accordance with regulations approved by the President, shall have the power to prohibit, in whole or in part, the introduction of persons and property from such countries or places as he shall designate in order to avert such danger, and for such period of time as he may deem necessary for such purpose.” (July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, §362, 58 Stat. 704.)
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