Biden administration using Title 42 to expel migrants despite earlier fight against it

WASHINGTON (TND) — The United Nations now reports 7 million people have fled Venezuela since 2015. Just this year, in 2022, more than 500,000 have come to the United States. Under the Biden administration, the Department of Homeland Security announced it will allow 24,000 Venezuelan migrants to stay in the United States but it will send others back to Mexico, using the pandemic-era policy known as Title 42. It is a pendulum swing by President Joe Biden as it's a policy his own Justice Department is fighting against. It also follows a declaration by the president, who said in a September interview that the pandemic is over. They are fleeing a country in turmoil, with a rise in violence and a lack of food and housing — often winding up in El Paso, Texas, where the city’s Democratic mayor has bussed about 10,000 to New York City — a practice that leaders say will end once their challenges do. Meanwhile, New York City Mayor Eric Adams has declared a state of emergency with tents erected to help house them for now. “This is unsustainable. The city is going to run out of funding for other priorities," Adams said in a news conference earlier this month. It’s a sentiment leaders from border states say they’ve been experiencing for years. FILE - Venezuelan migrants wait for a bus to take them north, at the Northern Bus Station in Mexico City, Oct. 13, 2022. President Joe Biden last week invoked a Trump-era rule known as Title 42, which Biden's own Justice Department is fighting in court, to deny Venezuelans fleeing their crisis-torn country the chance to request asylum at the border. The rule, first invoked by Trump in 2020, uses emergency public health authority to allow the United States to keep migrants from seeking asylum at the border, based on the need to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File) In an interview with Sinclair, Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, blamed the Biden Administration policies for the influx and said Texas voters are taking notice. "The number one issue, bar none, is a wide open border, exposing them to the danger of fentanyl pouring into the communities. people dying, empowered cartels, migrants dying on ranches, it is absolutely an abomination," Roy said. He and others say they’re worried about crime as well. Three undocumented immigrants were arrested just last week in El Paso in connection with a murder that occurred there in September. Immigrant advocates say Congress could deal with this today by updating immigration laws but until they do, current laws should be followed. "Under the current administration, Congress allows for asylum and we should follow the law and stop trying to skirt the law because we’re scared because there’s a large number of people who appear to be applying for asylum," said Allen Orr, former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. For more informaiton, visit us at http://www.beverlyhillsimmigrationlaw.com/index.html.