Republican states tell judge ending Title 42 will ‘directly harm’ US communities | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

AUSTIN, Texas — Fifteen Republican-led states have asked a federal judge to bar the
Biden administration
from ending the
Title 42 policy
at the border next month, warning that doing so would lead to more illegal
immigration
and “directly harm” U.S. communities.

The coalition of states, including
southern border
states Arizona and Texas, on Monday evening asked the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia to keep the pandemic-era policy in place for fear that reversing it would lead to an unprecedented surge of immigrants to the border, something that even the Biden administration
has admitted
will happen.

“Because invalidation of the Title 42 Orders will directly harm the States, they now seek to intervene to offer a defense of the Title 42 policy so that its validity can be resolved on the merits, rather than through strategic surrender,”
according to
the filing.

With the potential for illegal crossing arrests to jump from 6,000 at present to
18,000
the day that Title 42 ends, according to DHS estimates, the Republican states said they will “impose financial burdens” when immigrants are released onto their streets.

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Last week, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan of the District of Columbia
struck down
the policy as a violation of the Administration Procedures Act. Sullivan’s siding with the American Civil Liberties Union meant that the Biden administration would have to stop immediately turning away some illegal immigrants.

The Biden administration had vowed to stop enforcing Title 42 for how it prevented people who may be seeking asylum from making a claim though seeking asylum is not a requirement to be let in and released into the U.S. It has asked for five weeks to implement the judge’s order, with Title 42 set to end on Dec. 21.

The Biden administration had planned to end Title 42 this past May, but Sullivan blocked the attempt. It was a victory for Republicans, who have defended the policy as a way to keep federal immigration facilities at the border from overflowing with people in custody.

At present, the U.S. is seeing 6,000 to 7,000 people encountered on the southern border daily. More illegal crossing attempts mean fewer Border Patrol agents in the field because they are pulled to transport, process, and care for the rising number of immigrants in custody.

At the start of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention invoked Title 42 of the Public Health Service Act of 1944 and
recommended
to U.S. Customs and Border Protection that all noncitizens seeking asylum at ports of entry and those who crossed illegally between the ports be immediately expelled back into Mexico.

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At the start of its implementation through former President Donald Trump departure from office in January 2021, roughly 80% of all illegal immigrants were turned back to Mexico after being apprehended. The number being expelled under Biden has dwindled to one-third.

The states who filed the request are Arizona, Alabama, Alaska, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.