Biden's Border Mess and the End of Title 42
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
4.2 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:19.0 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:24.0 | The Supreme Court puts a hold on to President Biden's changes to the border policy, |
| 0:31.0 | as more details trickle out about Congress's $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package. |
| 0:37.0 | Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:40.0 | We are joined today by my colleagues, editorial board member, |
| 0:44.0 | Manet Ugué Barua, and columnist Kim Strassel. |
| 0:47.0 | The Biden administration is preparing to end the pandemic title 42 policy of summary, |
| 0:53.0 | expulsions at the border, and yet this week Chief Justice John Roberts put a hold on that, |
| 1:00.0 | asking for a response from the Biden administration. |
| 1:03.0 | Manet, just to start out with, I guess, maybe remind us what the history of this title 42 policy is, |
| 1:08.0 | and how we got here to this court case to the Supreme Court. |
| 1:12.0 | So title 42 is a name for a policy that was first invoked by the Trump administration in March of 2020. |
| 1:20.0 | So basically, the CDC can decree that there is a public health emergency, |
| 1:26.0 | and the federal government is able to then turn away anyone who enters the country who is not authorized to do so, |
| 1:33.0 | even before they're able to declare asylum. |
| 1:35.0 | And so, theoretically, this was used to prevent the spread of COVID beginning in March of 2020, |
| 1:41.0 | but even from very beginning of the policy, it's been clear that the main advantage of it was that it could be used to turn away |
| 1:48.0 | a large share of migrants crossing the southwest border illegally without having to have them processed by the Department of Homeland Security |
| 1:57.0 | in their pursuit of an asylum claim. |
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