Posted on 01/26/2023 11:51:41 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
WASHINGTON — Dozens of House and Senate Democrats tore into President Biden Thursday for keeping in place a Trump-era immigration policy that allows the government to turn away asylum-seekers without first hearing their cases.
Title 42, first implemented in March 2020 at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, allows border agents to kick migrants back across the US-Mexico frontier for public health reasons. The Biden administration has repeatedly tried to end the policy, but later backtracked as the migration crisis at the southern border exploded.
“Anyone who tells you that the only way to secure our border is to punish asylum seekers is lying,” Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) told reporters. “It’s why we are appalled to see President Biden replicate President Trump’s immigration strategy.”
Menendez was among 77 Democratic members of Congress who signed a letter calling on Biden to reverse Title 42 — and stop pursuing a new rule Biden proposed Jan. 5 that would bar migrants who don’t first apply for asylum in a third country before traveling to the US.
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The Democrat Party motto: “Anything to hurt America.”
MORE illegal invaders need to be sent directly to Congress persons front doors.
And how far is New Jersey from the Mexican Border ?
I’m sure there are some Texans who don’t like some NJ laws - should they be allowed to butt in?
We need a list of the 77.
Arguing about Title 42 while the illegals stream across unobstructed. BP is there to deliver them to the Greyhound station.
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