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Following appeals court loss, Republicans to ask Supreme Court to keep anti-asylum policy in place [1]
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Date: 2022-12-19
"We will appeal this ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday," Arizona attorney general Mark Brnovich told CBS News following the appeals court ruling. "I will continue to fight for the rule of law and to secure our border every minute I'm still attorney general."
“I will continue to fight for the rule of law”? Allowing asylum-seekers to ask for protection at our borders is the rule of law, which should put him on the side of the civil and immigrant rights organizations that have been fighting in court to throw the debunked Title 42 policy into the trash heap. But not only is Brnovich on the side of ignoring our legal obligations to asylum-seekers, he’s also looked the other way as his state’s governor, Doug Ducey, has been illegally building a shipping container “wall” on federal land. That’s been going on since the summer. Where’s the emergency order to stop that, Mark?
I can’t guess what the Supreme Court will say to the GOP states’ request. It is a right-wing court that this past summer did rule that the Biden administration had the authority to end Remain in Mexico, another anti-asylum policy implemented by the previous administration. The lower court order against Title 42 last month found the policy “violates the Administrative Procedures Act and argued that it’s ‘arbitrary and capricious,'" NBC News reported at the time.
DHS said it “has led a whole-of-government plan to prepare for and manage” the lifting of Title 42, with an updated plan released earlier this month. What the lifting of the policy means is that it returns us to how the U.S. asylum system functioned the day before Miller and former Mike Pence bullied public health officials into signing off on the order, experts said. “In three days, @CBP might be required to start using immigration law to respond to people crossing the border,” American Immigration Council Policy Director Aaron Reichlin-Melnick tweeted this past weekend. “For incredibly absurd reasons, some people are describing the resumption of normal immigration laws in effect for decades as ‘opening the border.’”
"To be clear: the lifting of the Title 42 public health order does not mean the border is open," White House assistant press secretary Abdullah Hasan told CBS News. "Anyone who suggests otherwise is doing the work of smugglers spreading misinformation to make a quick buck off of vulnerable migrants."
x Thank you @AliciaMenendez for having me on to talk about the end of Title 42 asylum restrictions, the Biden administration’s plan for it, and the need to break 30 years of partisan gridlock on immigration reform.
Full segment alongside @HayesBrown here:
https://t.co/zsbH4rJEEj pic.twitter.com/lZXSCEmLBK — Krish O'Mara Vignarajah (@KrishVignarajah) December 18, 2022
While immigration enforcement is solely a job of the federal government, Republican states could play their part by, say, not attacking the non-governmental organizations that aid migrants who have already been processed and released by federal immigration officials. But instead Republican at the federal and state level have launched intimidation campaigns against organizations like Catholic Charities, which aids migrants with meals, shelter for the night, or a bus ticket. The faith-based organization said it was “incredibly disturbing” to be accused by GOP House members of breaking federal law.
“The ministry of care provided to migrants by Catholic Charities has been ongoing, across multiple administrations, since our founding in 1910,” the organization said. “To care for people who are at-risk, including vulnerable people on the move, is a part of the fabric of the global Catholic Church and is mandated by the gospel.”
“With no basis in public health, [Title 42] came straight out of the Stephen Miller playbook,” tweeted Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president of Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service. “Not only is it an ineffective enforcement tool driving repeat attempts to cross, blocking asylum is deeply unpopular with voters. Will we see more political stunts around immigration as Title 42 lifts? Sadly, recent history suggests so. But we’re also equally likely to see communities across the US step up and embody the generosity of the American spirit, just as Martha’s Vineyard and others did this year.”
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