Washington.- The Centers for Disease Control (CDC, for its acronym in English) of the United States completely eliminated on Friday the controversial rule imposed during the Government of Donald Trump (2017-2021) that expelled minors unaccompanied migrants arriving at the border.
The current government led by Joe Biden no longer applied this rule with respect to minors -yes, it continues to expel adults, however-, but a judicial resolution was going to force the Administration to reapply it as of midnight this Friday if the norm was not modified.
Thus, just before the limit was met, the CDC issued a statement informing of removing the norm with regard to unaccompanied minors.
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The reason why this rule – known as Title 42 – was issued by a health agency like the CDC is that it was justified as an extraordinary measure to protect Americans during the covid-19 pandemic, by consider that immigrants arriving at the border could be carriers of the virus.
With its application, the possibility of requesting asylum was automatically denied to those who arrived at the border between Mexico and the United States.
“Removal of non-citizen minors and unaccompanied is not warranted as a public health protection measure,” the CDC said in its statement.
The Biden Administration does, however, maintain Title 42 for the expulsion of adults who reach border and minors accompanied by their families.
Title 42 has been in effect since the start of the pandemic in March 2020.
After learning of the decision, a group of Democratic senators issued a statement in which they said they felt “deeply disappointed” by the Biden Administration’s decision to keep Title 42 in force, although they admitted that preventing the expulsion of unaccompanied children was ” the right decision”.
The statement was signed by the leader of the Democratic majority in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, and Senators Cory Booker, Álex Padilla and Bob Menéndez.
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