As Title 42 expires, the United States expects a surge of up to 18,000 migrants a day at the U.S.-Mexico border.
A federal judge blocked President Joe Biden’s attempt to navigate the expected surge of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border amid Title 42 expiration, a legal move that the White House is condemning as sabotage.
Many Republican-led states like Florida and Texas have criticized Biden’s approach to immigration, and U.S. District Judge T. Kent Wetherell blocked a new policy that would allow for some migrants to enter the U.S. without vetting given that they appear at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement within 60 days. The policy was a strategy by the Biden administration to combat a surge of thousands of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border as Title 42, an order installed under President Donald Trump that allowed the U.S. to turn away migrants at the border under the belief that they would exacerbate the COVID-19 pandemic expired on Thursday.
