‘The border is not open’: US immediately replaces Title 42 with strict new rules
Trump used Title 42. Biden replaced Title 42 with something designed to help more refugees enter legally, while at the same time imposing more penalty for refugees attempting to enter illegally.
Related Court dismisses Title 42 case By Amy Howe on May 18, 2023 at 7:24 pm At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government began relying on a public health law, known as Title 42, to quickly expel migrants seeking asylum at the Mexico and Canada borders. On Thursday afternoon, the Supreme Court dismissed a dispute over that policy and whether a group of states with Republican attorneys general can step in to defend it. The justices sent the case, Arizona v. Mayorkas, back to the lower court with instructions to dismiss the states’ request as moot – that is, no longer a live controversy – after the policy itself expired on May 11. P - Justice Neil Gorsuch penned an eight-page statement regarding Thursday’s order in which he complained not only that any crisis at the United States-Mexico border was not related to the COVID-19 crisis, but also about COVID restrictions and the government’s efforts to exercise emergency powers more broadly. https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/05/court-dismisses-title-42-case/ .. and .. [...]What is Title 42 and what does it mean for immigration at the southern border? Nation Jan 13, 2023 9:14 AM EST [...]WATCH: Biden announces tougher border restrictions, offers legal path for 30,000 each month https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=173411988
Meanwhile Abbott talks tough while lying to his electorate by fabricating figures for his border policies.
"Abbott,, et al, lie to and mislead Texas citizens -- Fact-checking Texas leaders’ claims about Operation Lone Star [...]The result has been a multibillion-dollar operation that has counted arrests for crimes with no connection to the border and included tallies of drugs captured across the state in communities that received no additional resources from the initiative, ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and The Marshall Project found .. https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-governor-brags-about-his-border-initiative-the-data-doesnt-back-him-up . The news organizations’ investigation showed that while Abbott initially said the operation would focus on targeting Mexican cartel members and smugglers, misdemeanor trespassing charges soon accounted for the largest share of arrests .. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/04/04/texas-border-operation-imprisons-thousands-accused-only-of-trespassing/ . " --
Title 42 carried no legal consequences, but now migrants will face being barred from entering the US for five years
Marisol Chávez in Ciudad Juárez and agencies Sat 13 May 2023 09.31 AEST First published on Fri 12 May 2023 23.03 AEST
VIDEO - Title 42: confusion at the US-Mexico border as migrant restrictions lift
The US late on Thursday ended pandemic-era restrictions at the US-Mexico border that blocked many migrants from their right to claim asylum in the US – but immediately replaced the so-called Title 42 restrictions .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/11/what-is-title-42-explainer-immigration .. with sweeping new policies designed to deter or even physically prevent people from crossing the border without permission.
In an increasingly hard line from the Biden administration, the secretary of homeland security, Alejandro Mayorkas, said on Thursday evening that 24,000 border patrol agents and officers had been sent to the border to enforce US laws, adding: “The border is not open.
“Starting tonight, people who arrive at the border without using a lawful pathway will be presumed ineligible for asylum. We are ready to humanely process and remove people without a legal basis to remain in the US,” he said.
The secretary added on Friday morning, appearing on CNN, of migrants arriving at the southern border: “We are taking them into our custody, we are screening and vetting them and if they do not have a basis to remain, we will remove them very swiftly.”
Additionally, the state department announced a new website aimed at informing migrants how to access legal pathways into the US. The site, MovilidadSegura.org .. http://movilidadsegura.org/ , was created with help from the UN Refugee Agency, the International Organization for Migration and other groups.
In the hours before the new regulations went into effect, thousands of migrants waded through rivers, climbed walls and scrambled up embankments on to US soil, hoping to be processed before the new system went into effect at midnight US eastern time.
In Matamoros, Mexico, at the eastern end of the border close to the Gulf of Mexico, groups crossed the Rio Grande river in chin-high water. Some carried tiny babies and bags of belongings above their heads to make it into Brownsville, Texas, to ask for refuge.
They clutched cellphones above the water to light the way toward the US but, behind coils of razor wire, US authorities shouted for the migrants to turn back.
It allowed border officials to quickly return asylum seekers back over the border on grounds of preventing the spread of Covid-19.
While Title 42 prevented many from seeking asylum, it carried no legal consequences. After Thursday, migrants face being barred from entering the US for five years and possible criminal prosecution.
In El Paso in west Texas, hundreds of migrants camped out on downtown streets trying to figure out where to go next after crossing the border from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
The first moments of the end of Title 42 in Ciudad Juárez, the Mexican twin city to El Paso, were met with initial silence.
It was almost as if nothing had changed for the 500 migrants hoping to turn themselves in to US authorities outside Door 42 between Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, a gate in the tall border barrier.
The group had been waiting since late afternoon, surrounded by Texas national guard and border patrol agents, and entrapped by barbed wire.
Throughout the afternoon and into the night, small groups were slowly allowed into the country, while the rest stood by.
Donald Trump, an anti-immigration hardliner, implemented the Title 42 public health rule in 2020 when the pandemic hit, but it was continued and even expanded by Joe Biden, despite campaign promises of a fairer and more humane system at the border. The policy has faced court battles and criticism from left and right.
The order authorized border officials to immediately remove migrants, including people seeking asylum, overriding their normal rights. The Biden administration announced in January it was ending the declared national emergencies linked to the coronavirus spelling the end of using Title 42 to deal with immigration.
Immigration advocates represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a legal challenge against the new asylum regulations on Thursday, minutes before they took effect.
The groups said the Biden regulation “dramatically curtails the availability of asylum in the United States” and mirrored similar Trump-era policies blocked in court.
Kennji Kizuka, the director of asylum policy with International Rescue Committee, described the administration’s policy as illegal and inhumane.
“President Biden during the campaign made a lot of really welcoming pledges to roll back some of the most restrictive, most inhumane Trump administration policies,” Kizuka said. “Unfortunately, of late, the administration has chosen to replace the inhumane and chaos-creating Title 42 policy with the highly restrictive asylum ban that violates both US and international law.”
On Thursday night, a federal judge in Florida blocked releases of migrants who have not yet got a date to appear in court, saying they were similar to a policy previously prohibited in March due to a failure to follow proper regulatory procedures. CBP did not respond to a request for comment.
In a statement, Customs and Border Protection said it would comply with the court order, while the federal agency, echoed by Mayorkas on Friday morning, called it a “harmful ruling”.
CBP said it “will result in unsafe overcrowding … and undercut our ability to efficiently process and remove migrants”.
Judge Kent Weatherell blocked the releases for two weeks.
Later on Friday it appeared that US authorities had taken up to 1,000 people who had been waiting to enter El Paso away for detention and processing in centers further along the border, to try to prevent a crush, CNN reported.
Overcrowding fears are rising since the Florida court ruling will mean authorities having to hold many people for longer, until they have a court date. Processing under Title 42 was faster, with many quickly expelled, CNN reported .. https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/11/us/title-42-what-happens-next/index.html .
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