According to US health experts, a broad pandemic-related deportation policy that has essentially shut down the US asylum system at the border with Mexico will be ended, stating that it is no longer necessary to safeguard public health, Reuters informs.
The Title 42 order will be in force until May 23 to provide border authorities a chance to plan for its discontinuation and to increase COVID-19 vaccination supplies for arriving migrants, according to a 30-page directive from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The deportation policy decision was first granted in March 2020, when governments around the world closed their borders in response to COVID-19 worries, and it has since been used to deport over a million migrants and asylum seekers.
The formal statement comes after details of the proposal were revealed by Reuters and other news agencies on Wednesday.
Despite intense opposition from his own political party and campaign pledges to change the strict immigration laws of his Republican predecessor, Donald Trump, U.S. President Joe Biden, a Democrat, maintained Title 42 in place after taking office in January 2021.
Leading Democrats, medical professionals, and the United Nations have slammed Title 42, claiming that it deports migrants to hazardous parts of Mexico, denies them their legal right to seek asylum and that scientific data contradicts its declared purpose of curbing the virus’ spread.
Despite intense opposition from his own political party and campaign pledges to change the strict immigration laws of his Republican predecessor, Donald Trump, U.S. President Joe Biden, a Democrat, maintained Title 42 in place after taking office in January 2021.
Leading Democrats, medical professionals, and the United Nations have slammed Title 42, claiming that it deports migrants to hazardous parts of Mexico, denies them their legal right to seek asylum and that scientific data contradicts its declared purpose of curbing the virus’ spread.
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