COVID-19 rates plunge as decision nears on US asylum limits
2 years, 8 months ago

COVID-19 rates plunge as decision nears on US asylum limits

Associated Press  

SOMERTON, Ariz. — One by one, a voice called out the names of 169 people just released by U.S. Border Patrol. They were quarantined to motel rooms, while other migrants boarded chartered buses to Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport for flights across the U.S. Theirs were among just seven of 5,301 tests the Regional Center for Border Health near Yuma, Arizona, did last month for released migrants that were positive — a rate of 0.1% COVID-19 rates are plunging among migrants crossing the border from Mexico as the Biden administration faces a Wednesday deadline to end or extend sweeping restrictions on asylum that are aimed at limiting the virus’ spread. In Pima County, Arizona, which includes Tucson, the seven-day positivity rate among migrants didn’t exceed 1.3% in early March and dropped to 0.9% on March 10. CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky noted falling rates when she ended asylum limits on unaccompanied child migrants on March 11, while keeping them for adults and families with kids. In a ruling this month in a lawsuit over the order, U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman in Fort Worth, Texas, said: “There should be no disagreement that the current immigration policies should be focused on stopping the spread of COVID-19.” Even while large-scale expulsions were carried out under Title 42, the U.S. processed more than 2.8 million cases under normal immigration laws, which allow people to seek asylum.

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The US-Mexico border in a post-Title 42 world
1 year, 7 months ago

The US-Mexico border in a post-Title 42 world

Al Jazeera  

The Take looks at what the end of the controversial border policy means for migration across the US southern border. It allowed border authorities to reject people looking to seek asylum in the US on the spot and turn them back, on the grounds that they might be carrying COVID-19. The end of Title 42 has many expecting an increase …

Immigration policy is uncertain now that Title 42 has been lifted
1 year, 7 months ago

Immigration policy is uncertain now that Title 42 has been lifted

NPR  

Immigration policy is uncertain now that Title 42 has been lifted Enlarge this image toggle caption Mario Tama/Getty Images Mario Tama/Getty Images For the last three years, a previously obscure emergency public health order allowed politicians to temporarily sidestep one of the most complicated issues in American politics — migration at the United States' southern border. Sponsor Message The Biden …

Migrants rush to the US border as Title 42 pandemic restrictions expire
1 year, 7 months ago

Migrants rush to the US border as Title 42 pandemic restrictions expire

Hindustan Times  

Migrants rush to the US border as Title 42 pandemic restrictions expire The US ended a three-year-old asylum restriction, Title 42, stirring fear among migrants that the changes would make it more. The US ended a three-year-old asylum restriction, Title 42, stirring fear among migrants that the changes would make it more difficult for them to stay on. On the …

Title 42 has ended. Here’s what it did, and how US immigration policy is changing
1 year, 7 months ago

Title 42 has ended. Here’s what it did, and how US immigration policy is changing

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The U.S. is putting new restrictions into place at its southern border to try to to stop migrants from crossing illegally and encourage them instead to apply for asylum online through a new process. The changes come with the end of coronavirus restrictions on asylum that have allowed the U.S. to quickly turn back migrants at the U.S.-Mexico …

Title 42 ends: U.S. sees a record migration influx of more than 10,000 people a DAY
1 year, 7 months ago

Title 42 ends: U.S. sees a record migration influx of more than 10,000 people a DAY

Daily Mail  

Migrants gathered on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday hours before immigration restrictions known as Title 42 expired, with some rushing to cross ahead of tough new asylum rules that will replace the COVID-era order. Here immigrants lined up to be processed to make asylum claims at a makeshift migrant camp in El Paso Migrants cross the Rio …

Pandemic-related asylum restrictions known as Title 42 expire, straining US immigration system
1 year, 7 months ago

Pandemic-related asylum restrictions known as Title 42 expire, straining US immigration system

The Independent  

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As Title 42 ends in US, asylum seekers wait for relief on border
1 year, 7 months ago

As Title 42 ends in US, asylum seekers wait for relief on border

Al Jazeera  

Advocates fear the US-Mexico border will become a ‘deportation mill’ as new policies narrow avenues for seeking asylum. That is the limbo many asylum seekers face at the US’s southern border, now that the controversial migrant expulsion policy Title 42 has expired — and uncertainty has taken its place. After taking four different flights to arrive in Tijuana, he found …

Title 42 migrant surge is already here: More than 1000 people are arriving in Yuma, Arizona each day
1 year, 7 months ago

Title 42 migrant surge is already here: More than 1000 people are arriving in Yuma, Arizona each day

Daily Mail  

The line beside the border wall is 100 long before sun up on Thursday. Hundreds of people crossed on to U.S. soil from Mexico around Yuma, Arizona, on Thursday morning hours before Title 42 was due to expire. Similar scenes were repeated elsewhere Sandra, 32, and Bruno, 32, from Perus said they were just relieved to arrive on U.S. soil, …

Title 42 expires in HOURS: Migrants keep heading to the border in Texas, Arizona and California
1 year, 7 months ago

Title 42 expires in HOURS: Migrants keep heading to the border in Texas, Arizona and California

Daily Mail  

The end of Title 42 immigration authority that the administration has been anticipating for a year has finally arrived, with border agents and officials bracing for uncertain after affects and migrants still rushing to the border. That included about 1,000 arrivals a day in Yuma, Arizona Tuesday, with migrants gathered in Ciudad Juárez hoping to cross border checkpoints when Title …

Editorial: With Title 42 ending, Biden relies on the same failed immigration policies
1 year, 7 months ago

Editorial: With Title 42 ending, Biden relies on the same failed immigration policies

LA Times  

Dozens of immigrants from as far away as India and Africa wait to be processed by Customs and Border Protection officers Friday along the border wall in Somerton, Ariz. The border management strategy known as Title 42 has allowed the United States to expel asylum-seeking migrants en masse for the past three years using a public health pretext. Operation Hold …

Explained: Title 42 and how its expiration will affect immigration at the US-Mexico border
1 year, 7 months ago

Explained: Title 42 and how its expiration will affect immigration at the US-Mexico border

Firstpost  

The United States is getting ready to lift COVID-19 restrictions that have blocked migrants caught at the US-Mexico border from seeking asylum since 2020, a major policy shift with humanitarian and political implications. In April, the US Border Patrol apprehended some 183,000 migrants, according to preliminary data provided by Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, a 13 …

President Joe Biden ends US Covid emergency status
1 year, 8 months ago

President Joe Biden ends US Covid emergency status

Hindustan Times  

President Joe Biden on Monday officially ended the Covid national health emergency that for more than three years underpinned extraordinary efforts to provide care for a country where more than a million people died from the disease. Read here: US gov appeals court to halt abortion pill order The White House said Biden signed a law passed earlier by Congress …

How Biden asylum rule affects immigration, compares to Trump
1 year, 10 months ago

How Biden asylum rule affects immigration, compares to Trump

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — As President Joe Biden’s administration prepares for the end of regulations tied to the coronavirus pandemic that have severely limited the ability of asylum seekers to enter the U.S., it has proposed a rule that could dramatically alter who’s allowed to claim asylum at the southern border. Melissa Crow, a lawyer with the Center for Gender & Refugee …

Daily border encounters have dropped by more than half in January, DHS official says
1 year, 11 months ago

Daily border encounters have dropped by more than half in January, DHS official says

CNN  

Washington CNN — Daily migrant encounters along the US-Mexico border have dropped by more than half in January compared to last month, a Homeland Security official tells CNN, citing the expansion of a Trump-era Covid restriction and recently launched programs to legally migrate to the US. Last month, border authorities wrestled with a spike in border encounters, averaging around 7,000 …

EXPLAINER: What happens if COVID asylum restrictions end?
1 year, 11 months ago

EXPLAINER: What happens if COVID asylum restrictions end?

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Since the pandemic began, the United States has been using a public health rule designed to limit the spread of disease to expel asylum-seekers on the southern border. While many Democrats pushed President Joe Biden to overturn Trump’s anti-immigration measures, some — especially in border states — have advocated to keep Title 42, saying the U.S. is unprepared …

US Supreme Court keeps asylum limits in place for now
1 year, 11 months ago

US Supreme Court keeps asylum limits in place for now

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is keeping pandemic-era limits on asylum in place for now, dashing hopes of migrants who have been fleeing violence and inequality in Latin America and elsewhere to reach the United States. The Supreme Court’s decision said that the court will review the issue of whether the states have the right to intervene in the legal …

United States: What happens if COVID-19 asylum restrictions end? | EXPLAINER
1 year, 11 months ago

United States: What happens if COVID-19 asylum restrictions end? | EXPLAINER

India TV News  

United States COVID-19 latest updates : Since the pandemic began, the United States has been using a public health rule designed to limit the spread of disease to expel asylum-seekers on the southern border. That set off a legal back-and-forth with a group of conservative-leaning states pushing to keep Title 42 in place and the federal government and immigration advocates …

Supreme Court refuses to lift Trump-era rule at the southern border
1 year, 11 months ago

Supreme Court refuses to lift Trump-era rule at the southern border

LA Times  

Venezuelan migrants prepare to walk along the U.S. border fence after crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico to seek asylum with the U.S. Border Patrol on Sept. 22 in El Paso. A divided Supreme Court refused Tuesday to lift the Trump-era rule that has turned away migrants at the border as a public health threat. The court agreed to hear …

US Supreme Court upholds controversial Title 42 border policy
1 year, 11 months ago

US Supreme Court upholds controversial Title 42 border policy

Al Jazeera  

The United States Supreme Court has temporarily kept in place Title 42, a controversial immigration policy that has been criticised for denying refugees the ability to seek asylum in the US. But US President Joe Biden has met fierce pushback to his efforts to roll back the policy, with conservative judges and officials warning that the end of Title 42 …

Title 42 border rules confound Washington, migrants alike
2 years ago

Title 42 border rules confound Washington, migrants alike

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The drawn-out saga of Title 42, the set of emergency powers that allows border officials to quickly turn away migrants, has been chaotic at the U.S.-Mexico border. Title 42 allows border officials to deny people the right to seek asylum, and they have done so 2.5 million times since March 2020. “I don’t know why it’s taking them …

How will asylum work after Title 42 ends? No one knows yet
2 years ago

How will asylum work after Title 42 ends? No one knows yet

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — Show up at a border crossing with Mexico and ask a U.S. official for asylum? “I absolutely wish that we had more information to share with folks,” said Kate Clark, senior director for immigration services at Jewish Family Service of San Diego, which has facilitated travel within the United States for more than 110,000 migrants released from …

High court temporarily blocks lifting of asylum restrictions
2 years ago

High court temporarily blocks lifting of asylum restrictions

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is temporarily blocking an order that would lift pandemic-era restrictions on asylum seekers but the brief order leaves open the prospect that the restrictions in place since the coronavirus pandemic began and have been used to turn back hundreds of thousands of prospective asylum seekers could still expire on Wednesday. But as they’re set to …

As US debates Title 42 policy, asylum seekers left in limbo
2 years ago

As US debates Title 42 policy, asylum seekers left in limbo

Al Jazeera  

The Supreme Court intervened on Monday to block the controversial immigration policy’s scheduled expiration this week. In November, a US District Court judge declared the policy “arbitrary and capricious”, ruling to end Title 42. “The only real solution,” the document states, “is for Congress to fix our broken and outdated immigration system.” The Biden administration, meanwhile, has signalled it wants …

US court rejects maintaining COVID-19 asylum restrictions
2 years ago

US court rejects maintaining COVID-19 asylum restrictions

Associated Press  

REYNOSA, Mexico — Restrictions that have prevented hundreds of thousands of migrants from seeking asylum in the U.S. in recent years remained on track to expire in a matter of days after an appeals court ruling Friday, as thousands more migrants packed shelters on Mexico’s border with the U.S. According to the filing, Border Patrol agents stopped single adults 143,903 …

US plans for more migrant releases when asylum limits end
2 years ago

US plans for more migrant releases when asylum limits end

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security said more migrants may be released into the United States to pursue immigration cases when Trump-era asylum restrictions end next week, when a Texas congressman says some border officials estimate about 50,000 migrants could be waiting to cross into the U.S. U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, said Customs and Border Protection officials told …

US plans for more migrant releases when asylum limits end
2 years ago

US plans for more migrant releases when asylum limits end

The Independent  

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States move to keep court from lifting Trump asylum policy
2 years, 1 month ago

States move to keep court from lifting Trump asylum policy

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A coalition of conservative-leaning states is making a last-ditch effort to keep in place a Trump-era public health rule that allows many asylum seekers to be turned away at the southern U.S. border. Late Monday, the 15 states filed what’s known as a motion to intervene — meaning they want to become part of the legal proceedings surrounding …

US judge gives Biden administration five weeks to end Title 42
2 years, 1 month ago

US judge gives Biden administration five weeks to end Title 42

Al Jazeera  

The judge earlier said ‘arbitrary and capricious’ border expulsion policy was unlawful in a ruling welcomed by rights groups. A judge in the United States has given President Joe Biden’s administration five weeks to end a contentious policy that allowed authorities to expel hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers arriving at the southern border with Mexico. The administration had filed …

Controversial Title 42 border policy vacated by federal judge
2 years, 1 month ago

Controversial Title 42 border policy vacated by federal judge

LA Times  

Migrants walk by the shore after crossing the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas, in May 2022. A federal judge in Washington on Tuesday vacated a controversial border policy known as Title 42, a public health law invoked by the Trump administration during the pandemic that had allowed border agents to quickly turn back migrants. Previously, thousands of immigrants were …

Migrant crossings at US border rise for 4th straight month
2 years, 6 months ago

Migrant crossings at US border rise for 4th straight month

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — U.S. border authorities stopped migrants more often on the southern border for a fourth straight month in May, apparently unaffected by expectations that pandemic-era limits on asylum may be lifted. Migrants were stopped 239,416 times in May, up 2% from 235,478 in April and up 33% from 180,597 in May 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Wednesday. …

Refugees decry Title 42 as ‘absurd excuse’ as it stays in place
2 years, 7 months ago

Refugees decry Title 42 as ‘absurd excuse’ as it stays in place

Al Jazeera  

The COVID-linked provision has allowed the US to carry out nearly 2 million expulsions since March 2020. “We just want to get into the USA, that’s the only dream we have,” he said, referring to himself and other Haitians waiting in Tijuana for the border to open. “Let me see if they’ll cancel Title 42, and then I’ll do it,” …

Judge: COVID asylum restrictions must continue on border
2 years, 7 months ago

Judge: COVID asylum restrictions must continue on border

Associated Press  

NEW ORLEANS — Pandemic-related restrictions on migrants seeking asylum on the southern border must continue, a judge ruled Friday in an order blocking the Biden administration’s plan to lift them early next week. The judge cited what he said were the government’s own predictions that ending the restrictions would likely increase border crossings threefold, to as many as 18,000 daily. …

Federal judge extends the blocking of Biden administration’s plans to lift Title 42
2 years, 7 months ago

Federal judge extends the blocking of Biden administration’s plans to lift Title 42

LA Times  

Migrants who crossed the Rio Grande into the U.S. wait to be processed by Border Patrol agents in Eagle Pass, Texas. In a ruling issued Friday, U.S. District Judge Robert Summerhays in Lafayette wrote that lawyers for 24 plaintiff states had established that a “significant threat of injury” would arise if Title 42, a 1944 federal public health statute invoked …

US states argue to keep contentious border policy in place
2 years, 7 months ago

US states argue to keep contentious border policy in place

Al Jazeera  

US court is hearing challenge to Biden administration’s plan to end Title 42 restriction at US-Mexico border this month. A group of 21 US states have argued that the Biden administration’s plan to lift a contentious border restriction that barred most asylum seekers from seeking protection at the US-Mexico border was made without sufficient consideration of the effects it would …

US quietly expands asylum limits while preparing to end them
2 years, 7 months ago

US quietly expands asylum limits while preparing to end them

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — The Biden administration has begun expelling Cubans and Nicaraguans to Mexico under pandemic-related powers to deny migrants a chance to seek asylum, expanding use of the rule even as it publicly says it has been trying to unwind it, officials said Wednesday. Another Mexican official, also not authorized to comment publicly, confirmed that up to 100 Cubans …

Migrant crossings spike as US plans to lift curb on asylum
2 years, 8 months ago

Migrant crossings spike as US plans to lift curb on asylum

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Migrants attempted to cross the U.S.-Mexico border at the highest level in two decades as the U.S. prepares for even larger numbers with the expected lifting of a pandemic-era order that turned away asylum seekers. Immigration authorities stopped migrants 221,303 times along the Southwest border in March, a 33% increase from a month earlier, according to U.S. Customs …

Clash over immigration policy derails Senate COVID aid bill
2 years, 8 months ago

Clash over immigration policy derails Senate COVID aid bill

NPR  

Clash over immigration policy derails Senate COVID aid bill Enlarge this image toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Quick passage of a bipartisan $10 billion COVID aid bill is unlikely now that Senate Republicans — with the support of some Democrats — are trying to use the legislation as a way to extend Trump-era immigration restrictions. Senate Minority …

As Title 42 winds down, aid groups prepare for shift at US border
2 years, 8 months ago

As Title 42 winds down, aid groups prepare for shift at US border

Al Jazeera  

Migrant advocates and lawyers expect more people to arrive at US-Mexico border ahead of restrictive policy’s end in May. Now, as the Biden administration moves ahead with its plan to end Title 42, a health order invoked due to COVID-19 that effectively barred most asylum seekers from entering the US, aid groups at the border are preparing for a shift …

Federal lawsuit seeks to block end to sweeping asylum limits
2 years, 8 months ago

Federal lawsuit seeks to block end to sweeping asylum limits

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — Conservative-led governments in Arizona, Louisiana and Missouri have sued President Joe Biden’s administration to prevent federal officials from ending a public health rule that allows many asylum seekers to be turned away at the southern U.S. border. “The Biden administration’s dangerous and unlawful immigration policy encourages illegal border crossings and poses a threat to law-abiding citizens across our …

COVID-19 Asylum Limits At US-Mexico Border To End May 23
2 years, 8 months ago

COVID-19 Asylum Limits At US-Mexico Border To End May 23

Huff Post  

WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control announced Friday that it is ending a policy that limited asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The use of public health powers had been widely criticized by Democrats and immigration advocates as an excuse for the United States to shirk its obligations to provide haven to people fleeing …

Opinion: Good riddance to this terrible Trump-era policy decision
2 years, 8 months ago

Opinion: Good riddance to this terrible Trump-era policy decision

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Raul A. Reyes is an attorney and a member of the USA Today board of contributors. CNN — The Biden administration announced on Friday that it will soon end a Trump-era immigration policy, known as Title 42, that allowed US officials to bar entry to migrants and asylum seekers at the US border on the grounds that they …

The U.S. is ending its pandemic border rules. It could mean a surge in migration
2 years, 8 months ago

The U.S. is ending its pandemic border rules. It could mean a surge in migration

NPR  

The U.S. is ending its pandemic border rules. It could mean a surge in migration Enlarge this image toggle caption Sandy Huffaker/AFP via Getty Images Sandy Huffaker/AFP via Getty Images The Biden administration is moving to end sweeping pandemic border restrictions known as Title 42 on May 23. Since March 2020, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has used the …

US rights groups welcome Title 42’s likely end, want more details
2 years, 8 months ago

US rights groups welcome Title 42’s likely end, want more details

Al Jazeera  

Rights advocates welcome the reported plan to end the US border restriction in May, but demand an immediate end to expulsions. “We welcome the commitment to end Title 42 order, that’s an important step forward,” Acer told Al Jazeera, “but we also would like to see the restoration of asylum and the upholding of asylum law along the border.” Lots …

US to end ‘Title 42’ border restriction in May: Reports
2 years, 8 months ago

US to end ‘Title 42’ border restriction in May: Reports

Al Jazeera  

Biden administration expected to revoke contentious policy by May 23 but decision not yet finalised, AP and Reuters say. US President Joe Biden’s administration is expected to lift a contentious border policy that prevents most asylum seekers from applying for protection in the United States, after calls to end “Title 42” have grown louder in recent weeks. “We are near …

COVID-19 rates plunge as decision nears on US asylum limits
2 years, 8 months ago

COVID-19 rates plunge as decision nears on US asylum limits

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. They were quarantined to motel rooms, while other migrants …

US ends asylum restrictions for children traveling alone
2 years, 9 months ago

US ends asylum restrictions for children traveling alone

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Unaccompanied child migrants trying to enter the United States will no longer be denied a chance to seek asylum under new guidance announced by U.S. health authorities. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in announcing the change late Friday night, said “that expulsion of unaccompanied noncitizen children is not warranted to protect the public health.” The change …

Op-Ed: Continuing Trump’s pretext to block asylum claims, Biden defies the law and good politics
3 years, 1 month ago

Op-Ed: Continuing Trump’s pretext to block asylum claims, Biden defies the law and good politics

LA Times  

Dozens of men, women and children were led by U.S. Border Patrol agents and police to a holding area in June 2019 after they crossed into the U.S. to seek asylum. Just as the Trump administration invoked it in March 2020, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced this summer that it would continue, the Biden administration could …

Title 42 explained: The obscure public health policy at the center of a U.S. border fight
3 years, 1 month ago

Title 42 explained: The obscure public health policy at the center of a U.S. border fight

LA Times  

A U.S.-bound caravan of more than 500 migrants, including many Haitians and Central Americans, and including many families, embarked on foot from southern Mexican city of Tapachula on Sept. 4. Under Title 42, the vast majority of the migrants would have been turned away from the U.S. At the center of today’s most heated immigration debate is a decades-old health …

Why is the Biden administration still keeping migrant kids locked up? The saga of Title 42
3 years, 4 months ago

Why is the Biden administration still keeping migrant kids locked up? The saga of Title 42

Salon  

"A lot of girls cry. In a recent letter to the White House, more than 100 advocacy and human rights groups urged the president to rescind Title 42 expulsions, charging that the practice violates both U.S. refugee law and international treaties, and endangers people seeking protection at the U.S.-Mexico border According to Border Report in Texas, the expulsions have no …

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