By The FirstThe White House confirmed Friday they will end Donald Trump’s Title 42 immigration policy that prevents illegal immigrants from entering the US because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“After considering current public health conditions and an increased availability of tools to fight COVID-19 (such as highly effective vaccines and therapeutics), the CDC Director has determined that an Order suspending the right to introduce migrants into the United States is no longer necessary,” the Centers for Disease Control said in a statement.
“We are increasing our capacity to process new arrivals, evaluate asylum requests, and quickly remove those who do not qualify for protection,” said the DHS Chief. “We will increase personnel and resources as needed and have already redeployed more than 600 law enforcement officers to the border. We are referring smugglers and certain border crossers for criminal prosecution. Over the next two months, we are putting in place additional, appropriate COVID-19 protocols, including ramping up our vaccination program.”
“If there’s a strategy in place, we haven’t seen it, it hasn’t been disseminated to us and there’s no way you can prepare in a month and a half for what is expected to be a mass illegal migration crisis,” Brandon Judd, head of the National Border Patrol Council, told Fox News Digital this week. “The only thing this administration is going to be able to do is just release people on a mass scale, that’s it, that’s all they can do.”
