Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says the Biden administration will announce plans next week for the border after Title 42 ends in May.
that more than 660,000 migrants are in Mexico. That includes at least 200,000 Haitians and Venezuelans — groups that have been coming to the United States in record numbers since Biden took office.
Previous attempts by the Biden administration to lift Title 42 have been blocked in federal court by Republican state officials who argued that their budgets would be strained by a major influx of newcomers needing medical care, schooling and other public services.public health emergency that formed the underlying basis for the border restrictions. Barring a last-minute court ruling, the policy will expire on May 11.
“It is very important to build lawful pathways for individuals to be able to access humanitarian relief in the United States so that they do not need to take the dangerous journey to the United States,” Mayorkas said, describing the administration’s general approach. “Our model is to build lawful pathways and then to impose the consequences that the law provides on those who do not avail themselves of those pathways.
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