Title 42 is ending on Thursday – 10,000 migrants waiting to cross The Border
- Pandemic-era Title 42 is finally ending on Thursday, May 11
- Third time’s the charm: Biden unsuccessfully tried to end Title 42 twice in the last year
- DailyMail.com breaks down what Title 42 is and how its end will affect the border
Title 42 is finally coming to an end on Thursday, May 11 and there are at least 10,000 migrants waiting in Mexico to immediately cross the U.S. southern border once the policy is no longer in use.
The public health measure was employed in March 2020 by then-President Donald Trump as a way to quell migration over the southern border at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
While many saw it as a way to keep COVID-19 from spreading by way of illegal immigration and a way to address the spikes of migrant crossings, immigrant advocates felt it was inhumane for those seeking asylum in the U.S.
So what is Title 42, when was it enacted and what are authorities and the southern border bracing for when it does end next week?
President Joe Biden is finally putting an end to Title 42 on May 11 with the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency
The president deployed 1,000 active duty service members to the southern border to brace for chaos once the policy is no longer in use
History of Title 42
Title 42 was first enacted nearly eight decades ago as part of the Public Health Service Act of 1944.
The policy allows for border and immigration authorities to prohibit the entry of those who potentially pose a health risk or recently visited a country where a communicable disease was present.
Specifically, the law is related to stopping those who unlawfully entered the country and therefore were able to bypass any health-screening measures that might be in place.
During the coronavirus pandemic, Title 42 was used to immediately deport migrants without processing their asylum claims due to the declared public health emergency.
Enacting and attempting to end Title 42
Trump put Title 42 to use in March 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S.
Not only was the then-president using it as a way to stop migrants from bringing and spreading the virus in the country, but it also helped advance his tough-on-immigration stance.
President Joe Biden has tried to end Title 42 on more than one occasion, first attempting to do so in May 2022.
Republicans and illegal immigration hawks, however, argued that as long as a health emergency was declared in the U.S., the policy should also remain. They have also argued since then that the program needs to persist because there is nothing to replace it and illegal immigration will massively spike once it ends.
In March 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) decided the pandemic’s intensity reduced enough for Title 42 expulsions to be ended.
May 23, 2022 was the first date the Biden administration set to terminate the poliocy’s use.
But just before the expiration date was reached, Louisiana Federal District Judge Robert Summerhays blocked the administration from lifting Title 42 and expulsions continued through the original deadline.
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Later in December 2022, Biden tried to once again end Title 42 close to the Christmas holiday as reports and images emerged of migrants freezing on the streets of El Paso, Texas.
The second attempt to end the policy came in November when Federal District Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled it as unlawful and created a December 21 end date.
The Supreme Court stepped in, however, to pause that ruling on December 19.
The policy remained in place while legal proceedings played out.
May 11, 2022 serves as the final end date for Title 42 – coming in conjunction to the end of a three-year public health emergency.
The declaration of the health emergency gave the president certain authorities that are only able to be used during times of emergency in the U.S., including increased executive privilege.
Effects of Title 42 and its imminent end
Since Title 42 was enacted in March 2020, migrants have been expelled in more than 2.5 million instances. It’s unclear what rate there are repeated expulsions under the policy.
When taking all Title 42 expulsions into account since March 2020, at least 81 percent took place since Biden’s inauguration after he twice-failed to end the policy.
With the latest deadline of May 11, the Biden administration also announced last week the deployment of 1,500 active-duty soldiers to the U.S.-Mexico border where they will remain for 90 days as border communities brace for massive spikes in crossings.
There are fears that the number of migrants that could cross in the days after Title 42’s expiration could span between 700,000 and 1 million.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Sunday morning that it will be a ‘tough challenge’ to address migration at the southern border with Title 42 ended and said there will be ‘unprecedented’ immigration throughout the entire hemisphere after Thursday.
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Republicans have called for Mayorkas’ resignation or impeachment, claiming he has lied to Congress and the American people and has engaged in a dereliction of duty.
Header featured image (edited) credit: Migrants Waiting/AP Photo
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Where else did you think all those new IRS employees trying to steel your stuff were going to come from?
“president deployed 1,000 active duty service members to the southern border to brace for chaos once the policy is no longer in use”
Uh, no… His Fraudulency has deployed 1500 active duty service members to help process them through and pass out all the blank checks as fast as possible, that way, there is no visible crisis “at the border”.