Border Crisis: Moderate Dems Plea With Biden To Rethink His Disastarous Policies

By Jacob Taylor | Thursday, 26 May 2022 07:25 PM
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Border Crisis: Moderate Dems Plea With Biden To Rethink His Disastarous Policies

As President Biden tries to end Title 42 by appealing a federal court ruling blocking its termination, several Democrats critical of the move are redoubling their warnings about the dangers of doing so without a plan.

“Ending Title 42 without a path forward is wrong and reckless,” said Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, who’s in a high-profile Senate race in his state.

“Lifting Title 42 without the appropriate staffing and resources we need will only exacerbate the problems that have contributed to our broken immigration system,” Ryan added. “We cannot end this policy without a comprehensive plan in place.”

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Title 42 is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) public health order that’s been used since March 2020 to expel a majority of migrants at the southern border due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Biden Administration has frequently said Title 42 is a public health order, not a border security order. Therefore the decision to lift must be made on public health grounds only. However, Republicans, and a bevy of congressional Democrats who broke with the White House on the issue, say the President needs to consider how to handle the real consequences of lifting the order.

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“As courts consider Title 42, Sen. Hassan will continue to share her concerns about prematurely lifting Title 42 and will continue pressing the Administration on ways to have a safe, secure and humane border,” Laura Epstein, a spokesperson for Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., said. Hassan is also in a competitive Senate race.

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The legal defeat, in a way, could have helped the Biden Administration and Democrats. According to a recent Fox News Poll, 63% of Americans favored keeping the Title 42 border restrictions. Additionally, the Department of Homeland Security was anticipating a massive surge of migrants to the southern border due to the Title 42 end, a scene Republicans planned to use against Democrats ahead of the midterms.

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However, rather than leave the decision alone, Biden’s Justice Department announced an appeal shortly after Judge Robert Summerhays in the Western District of Louisiana issued his ruling. That ruling was in response to a lawsuit by two dozen Republican states, led by Arizona, Louisiana, and Missouri.

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“The Administration disagrees with the court’s ruling, and the Department of Justice has announced that it will appeal this decision,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a Friday statement. “The authority to set public health policy nationally should rest with the Centers for Disease Control, not with a single district court.”

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The White House did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital. But if the Administration is successful in its appeal, it could theoretically immediately end Title 42 – whether President Biden’s fellow Democrats approve of the administration’s plan or not.

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