Covid, Title 42, and the Biden Administration’s Border Policies
Stop the name calling, and let’s get some facts
By Andrew R. Arthur on August 14, 2021
It’s no overstatement to say that the Covid pandemic has shaped the world in which we live. Schools have been closed, restrictions imposed, 200,000 businesses shuttered, and government grown in previously incomprehensible ways. The response to the pandemic, both public and personal, has divided Americans with the emergence of the new “Delta variant”, and the threat of the coming of the “Lambda” version. What role has illegal immigration played in the spread here?
As a purely factual and legal matter, this is not a contentious issue.
Here’s the factual: On October 13, the CDC issued an order under Title 42 of the U.S. Code “suspending the right to introduce certain persons into the United States from countries where a quarantinable communicable disease exists”. The “quarantinable communicable disease” in question is identified in that order: “COVID-19”.
That order, which is substantially the same as others issued as far back as March 2020, allowed DHS to quickly expel aliens who have entered the United States illegally or sought admission without proper documents.
The key excerpt can be found in the third paragraph of that order, under “Summary”:
https://cis.org/Arthur/Covid-Title-42-and-Biden-Administrations-Border-Policies
