Lawmakers Push Back on Ending Title 42

“If Republicans – and even some Democrats – want no COVID-19 restrictions, then why complain about ending Title 42?

The folks furious about President Biden finally ending the health clause are the same ones who want no masks, no vaccine requirements nor any other type of COVID-19 mandates.

Yet, they’re going to court to use the COVID-19 restriction to keep expelling most border crossers.

That doesn’t make any sense – logically, anyway.

On Monday, Arizona, Missouri and Louisiana filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration to stop the White House from ending Title 42 by May 23.

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich called Biden’s move “a ridiculously poor decision with a bad intention for border states and American communities across the country.”

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmit bluntly said Title 42 is “a crucial tool for controlling the influx of illegal aliens at our Southern border.”

Title 42, which former President Trump invoked in 2020 to expel most border crossers in the name of containing the spread of the virus, has nothing to do with COVID-19 anymore.

What a bunch of hypocrites – all of them.

They say ending Title 42 will lead to a flood of border crossers, which in fact may be the case. But what does that have to do with COVID-19?

Even Arizona Democratic Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly are warning Biden against ending the “border restrictions without a comprehensive plan” to secure the border.

What does that tell you? That once again the border is just a campaign prop in the hunt for votes.

Title 42 is just the latest Republican tool to paint Democrats as “open border” supporters, who’d let cartels and human smuggling flood America with foreigners and drugs.

Fact is both Trump, a Republican, and now Biden have expelled most border crossers under the COVID-19 pretense.

Still, not everyone nor all the drugs are stopped from getting to American consumers.

But that has nothing to do with COVID-19. These politicians better come up with other ways to control the U.S.-Mexico border.”

“It's past time to say good riddance to Title 42: It was bad policy during the Trump administration, and it has been bad policy under Biden. Title 42 is legally questionable and morally indefensible. Its use put migrants in danger under the dubious justification of public health…

From the start, Trump's invocation of Title 42 was driven by politics, not by legitimate health concerns. In fact, when the Trump administration sought to implement the law, the CDC doctor who oversaw the regulation refused to comply.

Instead, then-Vice President Mike Pence used his authority to issue an order closing the borders to migrants…

Title 42 was always a border control measure masquerading as public health policy. Covid-19 was already rampant in the US by the time the policy went into effect, and the law was never applied to air travelers or US citizens crossing the border. It was only used as a pretext for keeping out migrants who were mostly brown, Black and economically vulnerable…

Part of what made Title 42 so morally reprehensible is that it placed thousands of migrants in harm's way. A 2021 research team for Physicians for Human Rights found that people expelled under the measure were subjected to violence once they were returned to Mexican border cities. And Title 42 has been applied inconsistently: Refugees from Ukraine have been allowed to claim asylum at the border, while those from Haiti have been expelled and sent back to unsafe conditions at home. This glaring double standard is simply unacceptable.

Now, with Covid-19 restrictions being lifted across country, there's even less justification for continuing to keep Title 42 as US policy. For all these reasons, the rescission of Title 42 cannot come soon enough.”