Biden's 1,500 Border Troops and Title 42

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The migrant crisis is about to enter a new phase, as pandemic expulsions end. But now that Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and other big-city Democrats are warning this can't go on, does President Biden have political leeway to act? Plus listeners write in about the 2024 Senate map and the latest news on Clarence Thomas and Harlan Crow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.3	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:24.3	President Biden sends 1500 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border as the Title 42 Expulsion Policy
0:32.5	gets set to expire. Welcome on Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We are joined today by
0:38.1	my colleagues, columnist Kim Strassel and editorial board member Manet Uguay-Perua. On May 11th,
0:45.1	the Title 42 pandemic era policy of summary expulsions at the border under public health rules
0:52.0	is set to expire. Let's start with a clip from White House briefing this week, press secretary
0:57.7	Karin Jean-Pierre responding to Fox News reporter Peter Ducey's question on why those troops are needed.
1:04.0	If the border is secure as the administration has said, then why would we need to send 1500 active
1:10.7	due to U.S. troops down there? Because we need more work. We need more work needs to be done, Peter.
1:15.8	We put forth a comprehensive immigration legislation and Congress of Republicans and Congress
1:23.1	refused to act. And so the president has used the tools that he has in front of him
1:27.7	to prepare ahead of Title 42 lifting as you know that is happening.
1:33.2	Manet, can you remind us what the Title 42 policy actually means and what do you expect or what
1:39.4	do analysts expect once that is lifted is going to happen at the border? Sure. So Title 42 is
1:45.3	a policy that was invoked by the Trump administration in March 2020 during the very beginning of the
1:52.3	pandemic. And so it uses a public health authority. It's actually the CDC's authority to say that
1:59.4	any migrant during a time of a public health emergency can be turned away at the border
2:04.9	without the opportunity to claim asylum. And that's very important because generally the
2:10.3	immigration nationality act would guarantee the right of any foreign migrant to present
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