FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
May 11, 2023
Government Accountability Project’s Statement on the Expiration of Title 42 and the Biden Administration’s Asylum Rule
WASHINGTON – Today, fifteen months into his presidency, the Biden administration is lifting Title 42, a Trump-era policy held over by the Biden administration. We applaud the removal of this policy, which was rooted in spurious public-health grounds to limit immigration at the southwest border. In its place, the Biden administration is simultaneously implementing a new final rule that enacts barriers and bans to asylum. This final rule enacts the February 23, 2023 proposed rule that was met with overwhelming opposition by a diverse group of nongovernmental and faith-based organizations, medical and public health experts, the Asylum Officers union, the UN Refugee Agency, and more than 80 members of Congress as violative of existing legal obligations to protect refugees and likely to inflict harm on asylum seekers.
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