Status: 12/20/2022 4:04 am
The US Supreme Court has initially stopped the expiry of a controversial deportation rule. The regulation allowed the US authorities to quickly reject migrants at the border with reference to the corona pandemic.
The legal tug of war over the controversial pandemic deportation scheme continues. The measure was actually supposed to expire on Wednesday. Now, however, the Supreme Court has decided that the regulation known as “Title 42” should continue to apply for the time being.
John Roberts – President of the Supreme Court – has thus granted a corresponding urgent request from Texas and other conservatively governed states.
Human rights organizations have criticized the practice
The rule passed in March 2020 under ex-President Trump stipulates that migrants who are apprehended at the southern border of the USA may be turned back immediately. The reason given at the time was that the aim was to curb the spread of the corona virus.
The Biden government wants to end the controversial deportation practice. Human rights organizations criticize that refugees are being deprived of the right to apply for asylum under some pretext.
In the past few days, an unusually high number of migrants have crossed the southern border at El Paso, Texas. A state of emergency has already been declared there. The border protection authorities fear that there will be an even larger flow of refugees after Title 42 is lifted.