The Supreme Court of the United States considers the request of Texas, Arizona and Virginia to maintain it on a precautionary basis
Thousands of people waited on the Mexican side of the US border for the time when the application of Title 42 of a public health law that Donald Trump used to expedite the expeditious expulsion of those who entered the country illegally expired, but that will not happen tomorrow.
The trip was cut short by the precautionary order of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, who on Monday night decided to attend to the urgent request presented by the states of Texas, Arizona and Virginia.
“No one can reasonably dispute that the absence of that precautionary order would cause a crisis of unprecedented proportions at the border,” they argued. “The idea that states will not be irreparably harmed as a result of the impending catastrophe that the termination of Title 42 will cause is therefore a fantasy.”
resolution, summer
Judge Roberts agreed. Joe Biden’s government had until Tuesday afternoon to prove otherwise, but everything indicates that the full court will accept the case, which would delay its resolution until the summer. The federal government is between a rock and a hard place.
On the one hand, Biden campaigned with the promise of ending this policy, which uses the excuse of the pandemic to control the flow of immigrants without having to attend to their requests for political asylum. On the other, the cancellation of it at a time of record numbers predicted that as of this Wednesday it could meet up to 18,000 emigrants crossing the border illegally, estimated the Department of Homeland Security.
Such was the scale of the crisis that El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser, a Democrat, declared a state of emergency early on Saturday. The Texan city has been overwhelmed for months, with Governor Greg Abbott sending the undocumented on buses to the northeast of the country.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) considers that the Supreme Court judges, with a conservative majority, should reject the request filed by the states because it is clear that they are trying to use a public health law for immigration purposes. Instead, the government should address the problem with specific policies that it implements “in a humane way,” said its president, Lee Gelernt.
Title 42 allows for immediate removal but not deportation, so immigrants are often left waiting in the dangerous strip of border until the next opportunity to cross. “That doesn’t mean the doors are open,” protested White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre. “Whoever crosses illegally will be punished.” That is not what those who make their way to the Rio Grande hear, where, they have been told, the American dream begins. FINISH
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