U.S. border officials have until the end of April to propose a plan to respond to a new court ruling that bars them from turning away migrant families who illegally cross the southern border amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled on Friday that the Biden administration can no longer immediately expel migrants who illegally cross the border, as has been policy over the past two years. Instead, the appeals court said migrants should be screened in interviews, and those who claim they face persecution or torture if they return to their home country may only be removed from the United States and sent to safe Third World countries.
“This is an enormous victory. We have argued from the beginning that the Title 42 policy is illegal and inhumane, and every court to address the issue has agreed," Gelernt said in a statement."The court’s ruling leaves no doubt that this brutal policy has resulted in serious harm to families seeking asylum and must be terminated.
In March 2020, the Trump administration invoked Title 42 of the Public Health Services Act of 1944, which gave the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the ability to deny the admission of people and goods who pose a risk of spreading a communicable disease. In that time, U.S. officials have expelled people 1.6 million times, though some were turned away more than once.
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