BREAKING: Biden admin now defending key Trump-era illegal immigration policy
The Biden administration defended its use of a key illegal immigration policy called Title 42 that was first utilized by the Trump administration.
Trump used the policy to deport hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants. Now Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is defending the policy according to Yahoo News on Tuesday.
Mayorkas called the policy a “public health imperative.” Title 42 “is not an immigration policy that we in this administration would embrace,” he added.
The defense comes following criticism from a former senior State Department official who described the policy as being “inhumane” and “illegal.”
Title 42 is a health statute that allows administrations to block non-citizens from entering the country during a pandemic. Recent polling shows just 35% of Americans approve of how Biden is handling immigration.