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In fact, Mr. Miller on multiple occasions tried to use Title 42 even before the pandemic during outbreaks of mumps at detention facilities in six states and again when border stations were hit with the flu. In most cases, he was talked down by cabinet secretaries and lawyers.

The new policy was slammed as a pivot from Biden’s pledge to restore asylum and as a move toward the policies of the Trump administration. Biden has long promised to take a humane approach to the situation at the border – a promise that some critics say the current White House could risk breaking with some of their restrictive border policies.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House’s chief medical adviser, cast doubt on the border rule’s effectiveness as a public health measure when he told CNN last year “my feeling has always been that focusing on immigrants, expelling them or what have you, is not the solution to an outbreak.”

The idea that immigrants carry infections into the country echoes a racist notion with a long history in the United States that associates minorities with disease.

The new rule released by the Biden administration bars migrants who traveled through other countries to reach the US-Mexico border from applying for asylum in the United States.

Since Title 42 gives migrants more chances to cross the border illegally after being kicked out, there are more attempts to cross the border again. Homeland Security officials have estimated that 30 percent of illegal crossings during the pandemic were repeat offenders.

A federal judge ruled in November that Title 42 was unlawful, and set it to end on Dec. 21. On December 19, the supreme court paused the ruling. Nine days later, the Supreme Court said the policy would remain in place while the legal challenge plays out.

In a dissenting opinion, conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote that the “current border crisis is not a COVID crisis. Courts should not be in the business of issuing administrative orders because elected officials haven’t addressed a different emergency. We are a court of law and not policymakers.

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The CDC intended to lift Title 42 in May after taking into account the current public health conditions and increased access to tools to fight COVID-19.

It’s not a permanent policy. It wasn’t meant to be. The only tools we have left to stop people from reentering are using it.

The law requires notice to and comment from those affected by an action, but President Joe Biden did not do that in his revocation of Title 42.

The states tried to intervene to protect their interests but the Biden administration said that they didn’t have an interest. “I think the events of the last two years, whether it’s on a cost in health care, whether it’s the costs of incarceration or whether it’s the costs in lost lives — Every state in the United States now is a border state, and we all have an interest in making sure we have a secure border.”

The states are impacted from a constitutional legal perspective. “And yes, the states should be allowed to intervene when the federal government won’t do its job.”

The Border Immigration Problem in the U.S.-Mexico Process: The Case of Joe Biden, the First Vice President, in El Paso, Texas

The person said that people from all over the world are crossing the border, and that they will tell you that Joe Biden’s not prosecuting anyone and people can stay here. The reality is that is what’s happening.

“I think there has to be a process in order for people to come to this country,” he said. Canada and Australia both have immigration systems that are based on merits and points. If they need, you know, more nurses or more gardeners in, you know, Australia, they will let people come in and become citizens and take those jobs. I think there are other systems that we can look at that do not create chaos.

“The very first thing you have to do is aggressively enforce existing law. You have to gain control of the southern border,” he said. “And then once you do that, you can start having a discussion.”

The migrant influx at the southern border was dealt with in part by then- President Obama. “They aggressively sent judges and federal prosecutors to our southern border to aggressively prosecute entry and reentry cases. During the Obama administration, they were able to stem the flow of immigration.

President Biden is visiting the U.S.-Mexico border for the first time as president on Sunday, stopping in El Paso, Texas, on his way to Mexico. The visit comes after two years of back-and-forth with Republicans over the Biden administration’s immigration policy.

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Title 42, an early PSUN policy that allows the U.S. to expel most migrants without a hearing, is under attack by Republican state officials and the Biden administration.

The Biden administration announced that it would expand the policy to include people from Nicaragua, Cuba and Haiti who illegally enter the U.S. through Mexico — but would also expand legal pathways for entering the U.S. The US plans to take up to 30,000 migrants from Cuba, Nicaraguan, Haiti, and Venezuela each month.

Biden said during a speech that people come to America for a variety of reasons. “To seek new opportunity in what is the strongest economy in the world. Can’t blame them wanting to do it. They flee oppression, you know, to the — to the freest nation in the world. They live in the greatest nation in the world.

For months, Republican governors have been sending buses filled with migrants to Washington, D.C., and other so-called sanctuary cities, as part of their campaign to call for tighter borders.

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who has sent many of the buses, hand-delivered a letter to Biden during his visit. The Biden administration’s immigration policy has been criticized by the governor.

“The Border patrol is now taking too long to process people,” said Texas Representative Chip Roy. “The border patrol cannot catch all of the drugs at the ports of entry, and they can only catch a small portion between the ports of entry.”

Republican leaders in the House of Representatives used their first hearing of the new Congress to zero in on what they call a crisis at the southern U.S. border.

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, presided over a hearing Wednesday billed as “The Biden Border Crisis — Part I.” As the name implies, it’s the first of what are likely to be many GOP-led hearings on the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Republicans on the committee sought to focus attention on the growing number of deaths from fentanyl, which is often smuggled across the southern border from Mexico.

“It is open. The border is dangerous,” said Rep. Andy Biggs, a Republican from Arizona. “Drugs pour across, international terrorists, criminal gang members, people from all over the world.”

The Biden administration disputes that the border is open, and argues that its recent enforcement measures have led to a drop in the number of illegal border crossings in recent weeks.

“The Biden administration actually expelled over 1.1 million people last year. And recently expanded the use of Title 42, much to the concern of many of us on the committee,” said the committee’s ranking member, Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York, who described the hearing as “political theater.”

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The committee heard testimony from Brandon Dunn, whose 15-year-old son died of fentanyl poisoning last year. Dunn and his wife co-founded a nonprofit group called Forever 15 to spread awareness about fentanyl poisoning.

Democrats pointed out that the vast majority of fentanyl seizures happen at official ports of entry, often in vehicles driven by U.S. citizens. Experts say a relatively small fraction is seized by Border Patrol agents between the ports of entry, while virtually none is seized from migrants who are turning themselves in to seek asylum.

Republicans say that the large number of migrants crossing the border distracts Border Patrol agents and that’s a connection.

The committee also heard from a pair of law enforcement officials in border communities, who painted starkly different pictures of the current situation.

The border is “the worst I’ve seen it,” said Sheriff Mark Dannels of Cochise County in southern Arizona. He says he has limited resources to help the Border Patrol catch immigrants trying to sneak through the desert.

“The morale of agents is extremely low, and the collective frustration is very high amongst law enforcement at all levels,” Dannels said. This is the largest crime scene in the country.

Source: https://www.npr.org/2023/02/01/1153565559/border-house-republicans-hearing-jordan-mexico

Reply to Comment on ‘No Open Borders for El Paso” by C.J. Biden and a Call for Impeachment

But the committee also heard from El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego, who described a completely different scenario. “There is no open border in El Paso,” Samaniego said, explaining that migrants there routinely turn themselves in to Border Patrol for processing in an orderly fashion.

Local officials and nonprofit groups have worked together for years with Border Patrol and other immigration authorities in the hopes of dealing with large numbers of immigrants seeking protection in the United States.

Several times, Republicans on the committee suggested that the Biden administration was deliberately encouraging migrants to cross the border illegally. Rep. Roy of Texas went even further, invoking the word “invasion” to describe the flow of migrants across the border.

The replacement theory is a false conspiracy theory that Democrats are trying to replace white people with immigrants of color for political gain.

“There is no invasion of migrants in our community. Samaniego stated that there are no hordes of immigrants committing crimes against citizens. “Claiming this continues a false racist narrative.”

Alejandro Mayorkas is the Secretary of Homeland Security and in an interview with CNN, he said that Congress should fix the immigration system rather than leaving it to him.

Republicans who have been harsh critics of President Joe Biden’s immigration policy are preparing to launch an impeachment case against the Cabinet secretary.

“I’m not going to resign,” Mayorkas told CNN’s Chris Wallace on “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace,” which is now streaming on HBOMax and airs Sunday night at 7 p.m. ET on CNN.

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Mayorkas made it clear that Congress needs to pass immigration reform to fix the system that both parties agree is broken.

Ahead of potential proceedings, the Department of Homeland Security is bringing on a private law firm to help with potential impeachment proceedings against Mayorkas.

There is not a common definition of security on the border, he said. If a person successfully evades law enforcement at the border, we’ve breeched the security of the border.

He added: “What our goal is – to achieve operational control of the border, to do everything that we can to support our personnel with the resources, the technology, the policies that really advance the security of the border, and do not come at the cost of the values of our country. I say that, because the policies were promulgated during the prior administration, that they didn’t match the values we hold dear.

US border authorities encountered migrants more than 2.3 million times along the US-Mexico border in fiscal year 2022, according to US Customs and Border Protection data. Of those, more than 1 million migrants were turned away at the border.

A new proposal which is the most restrictive of a raft of policies put in place by the Biden administration to try and manage the US-Mexico border is reminiscent of a Trump-era policy.

While there are some exceptions, the rule would generally apply to migrants who unlawfully cross the US-Mexico border. It doesn’t apply to children who don’t stay in the country.

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“To be clear, this was not our first preference or even our second,” an administration official told reporters, adding that the onus is on Congress to pass reform.

The asylum ban is at its core, according to a statement from the American Civil Liberties Union.

The proposed rule will be posted in the Federal Register for a 30-day public comment period and likely take effect in May, when a pandemic-era border restriction, known as Title 42, is set to expire. The rule will last for two years.

Mayorkas walked Latino senators through the regulation, according to the source, but it didn’t appear to ease concerns. The asylum rule violates President Joe Biden’s pledge to restore asylum, according to immigrant advocates.

Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus had previously voiced frustration with the administration when the rule was initially announced, describing being blindsided by new border policies and the lack of engagement. On Tuesday, House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jerry Nadler, a New York Democrat, and Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee ranking member Pramila Jayapal, a Washington Democrat, slammed the move.

I am aware that some of the immigration groups think it’s a Trump-like rule. Trump wanted to ban people from entering the country. This is asking that it be an illegal route to get into the U.S.

Among the plans being considered by the administration is use of a fast-track deportation process known as “expedited removal.” While Mexico has been taking migrants under Title 42 and previously under a Trump-era border policy known as “remain in Mexico,” the plan would appear to mark the first time Mexico would take back non-Mexican deportees at a large scale. The department of homeland security denied the plan was a thing.

President Joe Biden in Warsaw, Poland, expressed unequivocal support for refugees borne out of Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine. Back home, his administration just hours later announced its toughest policy yet aimed at turning away migrants, many of whom are fleeing persecution and economic ruin in their home countries.

From behind a podium adorning the iconic seal of the US presidency and in front of a set of American, Ukrainian and Polish flags, Biden on Tuesday had delivered a stirring message: America would forever stand with Ukraine on the side of democracy and freedom.

Critical in that fight for freedom, Biden said in remarks ahead of the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, was taking care of the millions of Ukrainians whose homes, families and livelihoods have been destroyed over the last year.

Reply to the Speaker’s Call for Action on Asymmetries at the U.S.-Mexico Border During a Meeting with the White House

With that policy set to expire in May, finding and enforcing other measures to restrict the thousands of migrants arriving at the US border has only grown in urgency for the White House – particularly as Republican lawmakers have been eager to paint Biden as weak on border enforcement.

The administration tried to correct course in private meetings with lawmakers about the upcoming release of the new asylum rule. But in one closed-door meeting with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Democratic Hispanic senators maintained their strong opposition and expressed their ongoing concerns, according to a source familiar with the meeting.

The Democratic senator from New Jersey was in the room. The senator – who had previously written a letter to the president to share his concerns – condemned the proposed asylum rule on Tuesday in a joint statement with Democratic Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico, and Alex Padilla of California.

“We have an obligation to protect vulnerable migrants under domestic and international law and should not leave vulnerable migrants stranded in countries unable to protect them,” it continued.

HenryCuellar is a Democrat from Texas and he has been critical of how Republicans and Democrats have dealt with immigration.

But he says a new asylum rule proposed by the Biden administration is a “reasonable” way to deal with the record number of migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border.

If you’re a county judge, a mayor, or a landowner at the border, you’ll see this day after day after day… You’re going to have a completely different perspective. I think I’m speaking for my community [when I say] we just want to have order.”

It is wrong to think that immigration activists are the only part of the Democratic base. They are an important group. I have always said immigration activists are one voice when we talk about the issues down here at the border. And I think the White House listened to them too long without taking consideration to the men and women down here that have so many families down here.

Who’s listening to the border communities? The media goes to an immigration activist when there is a rule like this. Who calls the border mayor in Webb County or in Starr County or in El Paso? Who calls the judges or the mayors?

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Some people can be returned to their home countries easier than others. There are countries where we don’t have good relationships. It’s not the same situation there. So if the countries are not going to take them, then I think we need to figure out how we can try to help those folks, but still screen every person that comes in to make sure that there are no reasons for keeping them out.