According to the expert on these issues, the decision to rescind Title 42, an anti-immigrant policy from the Donald Trump era (2017-2021) imposed at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, occurred at a time when the government He does not know how he is going to deal with the growing arrival of people at his border points.
Biden received a lot of pressure from Republicans and Democrats, both to maintain and to lift the rule that prohibits the entry of people with the excuse of preventing the spread of a contagious disease.
Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that, given the decrease in cases of Covid-19, as well as hospitalizations and deaths due to the disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the policy would be canceled at the end of May.
It will be repealed without the administration having a plan to organize the migratory flow and guarantee that the human rights of the undocumented, who are expected to arrive en masse in the coming spring and summer months, are respected, Altschuler commented in an article published by The Hill.
That said, he added, the decision and timing to end Title 42 demonstrates that the administration, which has been plagued by infighting, is politically deaf on the issue of immigration.
The United States Department of Health and Human Services stated that a “massive migration event” is expected in the coming months, with daily figures increasing from 7,000 to 18,000 arrivals at the border.
Under the excuse of Title 42, the Trump administration expelled 400,000 people, while the Biden government raised that figure to 1.2 million.
The decision to lift that measure came as Republicans made immigration an emblematic issue in the campaigns for the mid-term elections, scheduled for next November.
According to Altschuler, the ruling Democrat does not adequately explain his administration’s approach to immigration to American voters.
To stop the nosedive in his popularity, the Democratic ruler must devise a strategy that helps make the immigration process more humane and safe, as he promised so much during his campaign in 2020, the expert said.
It must also change its discourse and highlight its potentialities: indicate that for decades the Republicans in Congress refused to address a comprehensive immigration reform that would resolve the situation of unauthorized immigrants.
Biden should add that building a border wall did not solve any problems and list the policies pursued by his administration that, according to the Migration Policy Institute, have a significant impact.
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