Stop Title 42 and start serious border reform | Opinion
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott answers questions during a press conference at the Texas Department of Public Safety Weslaco Regional Office on Wednesday, April 6, 2022. Abbott says the state will provide migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border bus charters to Washington, D.C. The move announced Wednesday amounts to a taunt at President Joe Biden and Congress over what the Republican governor calls a failure by the federal government to stop the flow of migrants coming to the southern border.
Title 42 is the reincarnation of a rarely used clause in the 1944 Public Health Services Law, that requires asylum-seekers to wait outside the U.S. while their claims are processed in order to reduce the spread of disease. Activated at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, Title 42 can hardly be called a Trump policy any more since it has been in place under Biden almost as long as it was under his predecessor.
As Biden’s opponents will agree, the pandemic is waning, and lingering government strictures to control its spread are making less and less sense by the day. Expelling asylum-seekers can no longer be reasonably justified under the pretense of controlling COVID-19. We’ll add, too, that neither can restrictions in other federally controlled spaces. Why should citizens in airports be required to wear masks, which offer diminishing benefits, while public health restrictions on non-citizens are lifted at the border? As we have written before, mask mandates are a minor annoyance, not an existential threat to democracy as some on the more panicked fringes insist. But the government should be consistent here.
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