Democrats in Congress are joining Republicans to battle the Biden administration's plan to end a Trump-era policy of turning away migrants at the border.
To date, nine Senate Democrats and a prominent congressman from a Texas border district have urged President Joe Biden not to end the pandemic health policy Title 42, as promised on May 23. Under the policy, at the recommendation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, border authorities have turned away the majority of people who sought asylum at ports of entry or crossed the border illegally since March 2020.
Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee asked Peters last week to hold a hearing about the Biden administration’s plans ahead of and after Title 42 is walked back. Peters said, “We are looking at putting something together.”On Sunday, Coons said he wants the government to rethink ending Title 42 because infections have begun rising again in certain parts of the country.
"Right now, we have a crisis on our southern border. Right now, this administration does not have a plan. I warned them about this months ago," Kelly told Fox News on April 15. “It’s going to be, to be honest, it’s going to be a crisis on top of a crisis." “Title 42 was put in place at the beginning of the pandemic, and it makes no sense to end it when the administration continues to keep in place other pandemic restrictions and when it does not yet have a comprehensive plan to handle a steep increase in attempted border crossings that will occur once Title 42 is repealed,” Hassan said in a statement.
Manchin took it a step further than his Democratic colleagues and said Title 42 should remain in place “until we have comprehensive, bipartisan immigration reform that commits to securing our borders and providing a pathway to citizenship for qualified immigrants.”Tester has said that he is concerned that the already high number of people being encountered illegally crossing the border will rise if Title 42 is done away with.
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