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For: EFE Updated 14 Apr 2022, 17: 000 pm EDT
A group of twenty US Attorneys General filed a legal action to keep the Title in force 42, which allows the rapid deportation of undocumented immigrants and could be rescinded in May, in order to avoid a supposed “mass immigration on the southwest border” of the country.
Among the attorneys general who have signed the legal action is Ashley Moody, the Florida attorney, who decided to join this legal action after the announcement of the administration of President Joe Biden to render it null and void as of 19 of May this immigration policy in the midst of “the country’s worst border crisis in decades ”, according to Moody.
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“End Title 42 would be a disaster and increase chaos on the southwestern border that makes it easy for drug cartels and smugglers
of people advance with their illicit practices in our country”, asserted the Florida attorney in a statement released by her office.
In force since March 2020, when it was imposed by then President Donald Trump (2017-2021), title 42 served to expeditiously deport undocumented immigrants in the framework of the covid pandemic-19.
Moody’s warned about the dangers of rescinding this measure at a time when the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) calculates that “there could already be 18.000 migrants waiting in shelters at the south of the border” that the order be nullified to enter the US.
“There are also projections that Customs and US Border Protection could see up to 18, migrants a day once the order ends”, added the attorney.
In addition to Moody, they have signed the legal action filed in a Louisiana court the attorneys general of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming.
The The decision of the Joe Biden Administration prompted the Governor of Texas, Republican Greg Abbott, to respond by sending a bus to Washington with a dozen undocumented immigrantss inside, detained at the southern border and who are asylum seekers.
In a statement, Abbott, known for his ultra-conservative positions and who is seeking his re-election in the upcoming November elections, affirmed on Wednesday that the migrants are from Colombia, Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
Local media reported that several of the migrants intend to travel from Washington to other cities in the country, including Miami, to meet with relatives or acquaintances.
The legal action announced today comes one day after a dec In a statement to the conservative channel Fox News, the Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, also a Republican and also a candidate for re-election in November, warned the undocumented: “Do not come to Florida.”
“Life will not be easy for them because we are obliged to enforce the immigration laws of this country, even if our federal government and other states do not,” said the Floridian governor, another staunch opponent Democratic President Biden.
“Florida is not a state sanctuary and our social programs are intended to serve the citizens of our state “, concluded the governor in the statement sent by his office to the aforementioned channel.
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