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United StatesThe Supreme Court confirms the blocking of migrants at the border
The provision, called “Title 42” and adopted at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, allows migrants to be expelled at the border.
Human rights activists and experts consider Title 42 a violation of international law.
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The US Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that it is maintaining a measure taken during the Covid-19 pandemic that allows for the deportation of migrants at the border. The repeal of this policy, dubbed “Title 42,” was contested by 19 US states, which feared an influx of migrants at the Mexican border.
In March 2020, the government of former President Donald Trump activated this health system in order to be able to expel without delay migrants without residence permits arrested at land borders. This provision is immediate, does not allow for legal recourse and does not provide for automatic return to the country of origin. There are rare exceptions, for some nationalities such as Ukrainians after their country was invaded by Russia, or for unaccompanied minors.
Human rights activists and experts consider it a violation of international law. In particular, they consider it “inhuman” to prevent a potential asylum seeker from formulating his request in this sense. For them, the current system only encourages migrants to cross the border illegally and to take ever greater risks to get there by crossing hostile deserts or rivers conducive to drowning.
(AFP extension)
