Alka Verma –
Published On: September 19, 2021 at 13:00 IST
Joe Biden Administration acted to revive an order given by then President Donald Trump.
The order aimed to exclude all the Migrant workers who were crossing the US-Mexico border and were caught while crossing, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The migrant families were caught a day after a U.S. Judge blocked the border.
The U.S. Department of Justice filed an Appeal in the Washington-based Appellate Court against an order issued on Thursday by U.S. District Judge.
The Order issued by U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, blocked the exclusion process and Justice Sullivan also stated that the Public Health Law the policy is based on, Title 42, does not authorize the expulsion of migrants.
Meanwhile, Biden’s Administration is facing a lot of criticism and pressure from fellow Democrats, Health Experts and Immigration Advocates over the application of the Title 42 order.
The Title 42 order aimed to suspend asylum to thousands of migrant workers and currently the pressure to stop applying it has increased.
The Biden Administration has commented on the same saying that the application of Title 42 is still an important tool to prevent the spread of COVID-19, yet there is no scientific data to prove it and a lot of health experts have also criticized and opposed it.
The Appeal made on Friday in the U.S. Court of Appeals involved a lawsuit by advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Oxfam America.
Noah Gottschalk, Leader of Global Policy for Oxfam stated, “It’s extremely disappointing that the Biden administration is willing to fight tooth and nail to uphold President Trump’s xenophobic immigration policies.”
The expulsion policy of Trump’s administration firstly got implemented in March 2020, during the outbreak of COVID .
However, in February 2021, Biden’s Administration exempted alone children from the Policy and kept it limited to only a few families who got caught at the border.
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