Title 42 Controversy Continues

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The Biden administration’s announcement that it would lift Title 42’s restriction on entry into the United States has provoked controversy.  We will likely hear more about  the controversy later this week.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will appear at for three House of Representative hearings later this week that will likely focus on border policy. In the meantime, a federal judge has said he intends to grant a temporary restraining order that eventually could block the ending of Title 42 on May 23, CNN’s Priscilla Alvarez reports. On the border itself, the mayors of Tucson, Arizona, and Brownsville, Texas, have come out in support of Title 42’s end, Rafael Bernal reports in The Hill. “Congress should work on real immigration reform that doesn’t exploit an arcane public health authority to deny people their basic, human right to seek asylum,” the mayors wrote.

In the background, the midterm elections continue.

KJ