Title 42 indicates the suspension of entry to the United States in response to COVID-19. For further details available here: “42 U.S. Code § 265 – Suspension of entries and imports from designated places to prevent spread of communicable diseases”
News articles on this topic:
- “After review, U.S. maintains border policy of expelling migrants, citing Omicron” After a recent internal review, the Biden administration decided to maintain a pandemic-era order put in place under former President Donald Trump that authorizes the rapid deportation of migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told CBS News Thursday.
CBS News – October 1, 2021
- “Court allows U.S. border officials to continue expelling migrant families” An appeals court suspended a federal judge’s order that would have barred the Biden administration from using Title 42 to expel migrant families. The federal judge’s order paused by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals would have required the Biden administration to process all migrant families with children under U.S. immigration laws, which allow them to seek asylum or other forms of humanitarian refuge.
Politico – October 4, 2021
- “Top State adviser leaves post, rips Biden’s use of Trump-era Title 42” In a detailed legal memo dated October 2 and obtained by POLITICO, Harold Koh, a senior adviser and the sole political appointee on the State Department’s legal team, called the use of the public health authority known as Title 42 “illegal,” “inhumane” and “not worthy of this Administration that I so strongly support.”
NPR – September 20, 2021
- “The Biden Administration Is Fighting In Court To Keep A Trump-Era Immigration Policy” Thousands of migrants — many originally from Haiti — have been camped out in squalid conditions since last week. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas visited the site Monday and pledged to ramp up removal and expulsion flights of arriving migrants.