Several outlets reported on Wednesday that the Administration plans to rescind the order in some capacity by May 23 — plans Manchin told reporters at the Capitol Thursday that he thinks they should drop “Oh my goodness. Just watch the news y’all put out every day, what’s coming across,” Machin said.
Manchin had previously expressed his opposition to lifting Title 42 — making him one of just a handful of Democrats to do so as President Biden largely faces pressure from within his party to scrap what many see as an illegal and inhumane policy.
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“With encounters along our southern border surging and the highly-transmissible Omicron BA.2 subvariant emerging as the dominate strain in the United States, now is not the time to throw caution to the wind,” Manchin wrote in a Tuesday letter to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky.
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“I urge you to again renew this commonsense policy that has been in effect—under both Republican and Democratic Administrations—since March 2020.”
The letter prompted Walensky to extend the policy after the CDC said it would examine the policy through March 30.
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Other Democrats, meanwhile, have offered sharper criticism of Biden for maintaining the policy.
“As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention relaxes it domestic COVID-19 protocols, it is perplexing that the agency continues to recommend the extended use of this draconian policy at the border, contradicting the overwhelming signs of America’s pandemic recovery under President Biden’s leadership,” Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) wrote in a letter earlier this month alongside Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.).
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“As we have clearly reminded President Biden, we have a moral imperative to live by our values.”
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White House director of communications Kate Bedingfield declined to confirm the report but said the decision of when to lift Title 42 is solely up to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
“Title 42 is a public health directive, it is not an immigration or migration enforcement measure, so the decision on when to lift Title 42, we defer to the CDC,” Bedingfield responded. “That being said, of course, we are planning for multiple contingencies, and we have every expectation that when the CDC ultimately decides it’s appropriate to lift Title 42, there will be an influx of people to the border.”
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