国土安全部预计本周将解除第42条限制特朗普时代的秩序两名政府官员周三接受美国广播公司采访时表示,政府有权在公共卫生紧急状态下驱逐南部边境的移民。
民主党人和移民倡导者强烈反对该政策,称担心该政策对寻求庇护和其他形式人道主义救济的移民造成限制。
参议院多数党领袖查克·舒默表示,他对拜登政府没有结束第42条快速驱逐协议“深感失望”,他特别提到了乌克兰家庭面临的风险。
“这不是我们作为一个国家的样子,”舒默本月早些时候说。“继续这种特朗普时代的政策违背了常识和常识。现在是停止疯狂的时候了。拜登总统必须履行他的承诺,全面恢复我们的难民法,为边境带来秩序,并停止使用第42条为这些驱逐行动辩护。”
美国疾病控制和预防中心(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)负责发布该命令,该命令是在全球变暖之初特朗普政府以公共卫生的名义发布的疫情冠状病毒。CDC在一份声明中告诉ABC新闻,该机构正在继续审查,尚未发布正式决定。
“我们正在完成目前的评估,并将在本周晚些时候发布更多信息,”CDC在一份声明中说。
美联社第一个报道第42条将很快被废除。
在一场法庭斗争中,政府面临着重新明确驱逐无人陪伴的未成年移民或要求上诉法院干预的最后期限撤销第42条政策这个月早些时候再次为无人陪伴的儿童。
众议员迈克尔·麦克考尔,R-德克萨斯州,外交事务委员会的高级成员,告诉美国广播公司新闻,政府没有更广泛地实施是错误的移民保护协议这是唐纳德·特朗普总统首次使用的一种工具,用来迫使寻求庇护者在墨西哥等待他们在美国处理的申请。
“报告称,总统在拒绝正确实施MPP后将废除第42条,这为成千上万的非法遭遇和致命药物的持续流动创造了条件,这些药物将毒害我们的社区,并为进一步的人口贩运和苦难打开了大门,”麦克考尔说。
虽然拜登政府已经宣布为20多个项目提供数十亿美元的资金,以扩大和现代化美国边境口岸,但尚不清楚这些资金是否足以充分扩大海关和边境保护设施的处理能力。
政府官员在年表示,主要目标是通过新的安全和可持续发展功能来改善商业和贸易,以便联邦设施赶上近年来的贸易扩张宣布资助计划上个月。34亿美元的投资来自两党基础设施法。
陆地入境口岸的延误和长队是常见的,尤其是在国家交通最繁忙的地区,如圣地亚哥。据报道,仅在南部边境,延误就造成了88,000个工作岗位和大约30亿美元的经济产出2016年的一项研究跨境贸易。
美国总务管理局局长罗宾·卡纳汉(Robin Carnahan)在宣布边境资金的活动中告诉记者,“这些低效率转化为更弱的经济,更少的就业机会,我们可以做得更好。”“许多陆地港口在许多方面都超过了它们的使用寿命和容量,我们今天谈论的这些升级早就应该进行了。”
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美联社报道,第42条的废除日期定在5月23日。
那时间表会带来巨大的压力美国边境巡逻队将制定一项计划,允许安全处理被拘留的移民。
国家边境巡逻委员会主席布兰登·贾德周三告诉美国广播公司新闻说:“如果事实上他们在5月23日摆脱了它,他们几乎没有给我们一个半月的时间来准备。”“不可能在这么短的时间内完成如此大规模的行动而不造成完全的混乱。不可能的。”
Biden administration moves forward with plans to lift Title 42 border restrictions
The Department of Homeland Security is expected to move forward this week with lifting Title 42 restrictions -- theTrump-era ordergiving the government authority to expel migrants at the southern border under a public health emergency -- two government officials told ABC News Wednesday.
Democrats and immigrant advocates have strongly opposed the policy, citing concerns over the limits it places on migrants seeking asylum and other forms of humanitarian relief.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he has been "deeply disappointed" in the Biden administration for not ending the Title 42 rapid expulsion protocols and he specifically referenced the risks posed to Ukrainian families.
"This is not who we are as a country," Schumer said earlier this month. "Continuing this Trump-era policy defies common sense and common decency. Now's the time to stop the madness. President Biden must fulfill his promise to fully restore our refugee laws, bring order to the border and stop the use of Title 42 to justify these deportations."
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are responsible for issuing the order, which was made in the name of public health under the Trump administration at the beginning of the globalcoronavirus pandemic. The agency is continuing its review and has yet to issue a formal decision, the CDC told ABC News in a statement.
"We are finalizing our current assessment and will release more information later this week," the CDC said in a statement.
The Associated Presswas first to reportTitle 42 would soon be rescinded.
A court battle in which the administration faced a deadline to reimpose categorical expulsions of unaccompanied migrant minors or to ask an appellate court to intervene resulted in the administrationrescinding the Title 42 policyfor unaccompanied children once again earlier this month.
Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, the ranking member on the Foreign Affairs Committee, told ABC News the administration is at fault for not more expansively implementing theMigrant Protection Protocols, a tool first used by President Donald Trump to force asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for their claims to process in the U.S.
"Reports the president will rescind Title 42 after refusing to properly implement MPP is setting the stage for hundreds of thousands more illegal encounters and the continued flow of deadly drugs that will poison our communities, as well as opening the door to further human trafficking and misery," McCaul said.
While the Biden administration has announced billions in funding for more than two dozen projects to expand and modernize U.S. border crossings, it's not clear those funds will be enough to sufficiently expand the processing capacity of Customs and Border Protection facilities.
The primary goal is to improve commerce and trade with new security and sustainability features so federal facilities catch up to the expansion of trade in recent years, administration officials said inannouncing the funding planlast month. The $3.4 billion investment comes from the bipartisan infrastructure law.
Delays and long lines at land ports of entry are common, especially at the nation's highest trafficked regions, like San Diego. On the southern border alone, delays have cost 88,000 jobs and roughly $3 billion in economic output, according toa 2016 studyof cross-border trade.
"Those inefficiencies translate into a weaker economy, fewer jobs and we can do better," U.S. General Services Administrator Robin Carnahan told reporters at an event announcing the border funding. "A lot of these land ports are beyond their useful life and their capacity in many ways and these upgrades that we're talking about today are long overdue."
The AP reported the repeal date for Title 42 is slated for May 23.
Thattimeline would put immense pressureon the U.S. Border Patrol to enact a plan that will allow for the safe processing of migrant taken into custody.
"If in fact they do get rid of it on May 23 they're barely giving us a month and a half to get prepared," Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, told ABC News Wednesday. "There's just no way to get an operation of that magnitude in place in that short of a period of time without there being complete chaos. It's impossible."