The DOJ has appealed a Florida judge’s decision to block the Biden administration’s plan to begin releasing migrants into the community under Title 42.
As the fallout from the expiration of the order continues, has received new photos showing dozens of migrants being apprehended by border police as they enter the US illegally.
Biden’s proposed “suspended sentences” should be triggered if reception centers reach 125 percent capacity or if authorities stop 7,000 migrants along the border in one day.
That plan was halted Thursday night when Donald Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge T. Kent Wetherell agreed with the argument by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration, which had filed a lawsuit in court that the Biden plan was nearly identical to a other Biden said the policy was previously invalidated in federal court.
Crowds of migrants arrived at the southern border as Title 42 expired on Saturday
Border Patrol agents detain migrants after they illegally crossed the border into Sunland Park, New Mexico, May 13
The White House has accused Republicans, particularly Gov. Ron DeSantis, of sabotaging efforts to deal with the fallout from Title 42
“The way we see it, it’s sabotage.” It’s plain and simple. “That’s how we read it,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at her daily news briefing on Friday
“The Justice Department will fight this,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced on Friday.
“Republican elected officials continue to play games here,” she said. “They keep doing political stunts and they don’t want to solve this problem. They want to use it again as a campaign tool for themselves.”
In this case, the Justice Department said the new policy was in response to an emergency and preventing it from being implemented “could overwhelm the border and pose serious health and safety risks to non-citizens and immigration officials.”
Wetherell blocked the publications for two weeks and scheduled a May 19 hearing on whether to extend his order.
Title 42 allowed authorities to use a health law to quickly expel migrants who crossed the border and deny them the right to seek asylum. US officials have turned migrants away more than 2.8 million times under the order.
New rules will remove the ability to simply deport asylum seekers, but will impose harsher consequences on those who do not go through official migration channels. Migrants caught crossing the country illegally are barred from returning for five years and face criminal prosecution if they do.
Biden’s plan was to parole migrants from overcrowded refugee centers and give them a 60-day card to appear before an immigration officer again
These “suspended sentences” were to be triggered when reception centers reached 125% capacity or when authorities stopped 7,000 migrants along the border in one day
Now that that plan was stopped by a Florida judge as migrants continue to flood the country, the White House is grappling with a legal saga. The administration intends to appeal
The Biden administration has also set caps on the number of migrants who can apply for asylum.
At the same time, Biden is likely to continue American pressure on Mexico and other countries to make it more difficult for migrants to move north.
Mexico’s Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said they disagreed with the Biden government’s decision to continue erecting barriers to migration.
“Our position is the opposite, but we respect their (US) jurisprudence,” Ebrard said.
But in a press conference on Friday, he announced that Mexico would speed up deportations and stop issuing papers to migrants transiting through Mexico.
Thousands of other migrants from across the hemisphere continue to struggle to reach the United States-Mexico border and seek asylum.
They race, unsure what changing immigration rules and the end of a pandemic-era border restriction, Title 42, would mean for their chances of a new life in the United States
From the US-Mexico border to migration routes across America, the confusion has spread as migrants struggle to understand complex and ever-changing policies. And while Title 42 has ended, the influx of migrants heading north has not yet ended.
In this case, the Justice Department said the new policy was a response to an emergency and that preventing it from being implemented “could overwhelm the border and pose serious health and safety risks to non-citizens and immigration officials.”
Title 42 allowed authorities to use a health law to quickly expel migrants who crossed the border and deny them the right to seek asylum
US officials have turned migrants away more than 2.8 million times under the order.
From the rolling mountains and jungles of Central America to the tops of trains that thunder through Mexico, migrants from Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, Colombia, Nicaragua, Ecuador and beyond advance on their journey.
The problem, experts say, is that while immigration laws are changing, the root causes that are pushing people to flee their countries in record numbers only endure.
“It doesn’t appear that this will curb the push or pull factors for migration from Central America, South America and other parts of the world,” said Falko Ernst, senior analyst at International Crisis Group in Mexico. in an interview with the Associated Press.
“The incentives for people to flee and seek refuge in safer havens in the United States are still there.”
Others, like 25-year-old migrant Gerardo Escobar, fled the country in search of a better future after, like Contreras’ family, struggling to make ends meet.
Escobar along with 60 other migrants, including families and young children, walked along the train tracks just outside Mexico City on Friday morning. They hoped to board a train that migrants had used for decades to carry them on their perilous journey.
Escobar was among the many who said he had no idea what the end of Title 42 would mean and didn’t care either.
“My dream is to find a job, eat well and help my family in Venezuela,” he said. “My dream is to move forward.”
New rules will remove the ability to simply deport asylum seekers, but will impose harsher consequences on those who do not go through official migration channels
The Biden administration has also set caps on the number of migrants who can apply for asylum
Although misinformation prompted a rush to the border last week, analysts and those providing shelter to migrants said they don’t expect new policies will radically stem the flow of migrants.
While the new rules are unlikely to provide a strong deterrent, Ebrard and the director of a migrant shelter in Guatemala said they noticed a drop in the number of migrants they encountered immediately after the stampede at the US border. However, the director of the shelter said the numbers were slowly increasing.
Still, migrants continued to be able to cross the US border even after the new rules were announced. Around midnight, about 60 migrants who had crossed the Rio Bravo waited to be processed at a cemetery near Roma, Texas. Among them was a large group of Chinese migrants huddled together for shelter in the pouring rain.
Another member of the group, a Guatemalan woman who left her country to escape an abusive husband, crossed the river with her four-year-old son. As the rules changed, she wasn’t sure if she would be eligible for asylum assistance.
Ernst of the International Crisis Group warned that such measures could make the already deadly journey even more dangerous.
“You will see an increase in populations that remain vulnerable to criminal groups who can exploit, recruit and profit from them,” he said. “It could just end up in the hands of these criminal groups.”
Meanwhile, Contreras, along with many other migrants, continue to move forward, although no clear path forward is clear and little information is available about what awaits them at the US border.
It is worthwhile to give accompanying small children a better life, she said.
“We fought a lot for them (the kids),” she said. “All we want is security, a humble home where they can study and eat well.” We don’t ask for much. We ask only for peace and security.’