Immigration Reporter
Wall Street Journal
Michelle Hackman reports in the WSJ:
WASHINGTON—The Biden administration plans to end its use of Title 42, a Trump-era pandemic border policy that allows the government to immediately turn away migrants at the southern border, by the end of May, according to a draft of the order reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and officials familiar with the matter.
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I’ll believe it when it happens! Seven weeks is plenty of time for the Administration to develop another self-generated “crisis” that, in turn, can be used as an excuse to continue violating the law. And, some politicos of both parties are already pushing to keep sending asylum seekers to death with no due process because they think it will prove popular with certain voters. Once you start violating the law and avoiding the consequences it’s hard to stop!
Since the Administration doesn’t appear to have much of a plan in mind, it will be largely up to pro bono lawyers and human rights/racial justice NGOs to get folks down to the border to represent and advise asylum applicants. That might be the only way to instill some order, discipline, and legality into what otherwise appears to be another “designed to fail” effort by the USG.
In immigration and human rights, competence to run the system in accordance with law remains a largely untapped resource in the private/NGO/academic sector! Using the same “enforcement only” bureaucrats whose “deter, detain, and deport” approach to asylum has failed in the past to produce and maintain a fair, efficient, due process oriented system is likely to be yet another “fool’s errand” with humanity and our nation’s values hanging in the balance.
🇺🇸Due Process Forever!
PWS
03-30-22