At least fifteen Republican-majority states have asked the U.S. judiciary to uphold former President Donald Trump-era Title 42, which allows the Administration to deny migrants the opportunity to apply for asylum on health grounds.
The move by the states, which argue that an increase in migration to the border will «impose financial burdens on states that involuntarily take them in,» seeks to delay a court order issued last week that would lift the measure, pushed through during the Trump era.
«States have sovereign and quasi-sovereign interests in controlling their borders, limiting the persons present within them, excluding persons carrying communicable diseases and migration law enforcement,» reads the text, picked up by NBC.
Title 42 is a public health provision pushed by the previous U.S. Administration, presided over by Donald Trump, that authorizes the collective removal of any migrant and asylum seeker attempting to cross U.S. land borders without an individual assessment of their circumstances and protection needs.
