number of arrests immigrants Attempting to cross the southern border of the United States in a disorderly manner hit a two-year low in January.The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) informed EFE on Tuesday. Authorities attribute this decline to: Extension of title 42 in early JanuaryA controversial health ordinance allowing the deportation of Haitian, Cuban and Nicaraguan immigrants
As of January 31, arrests of people of these three nationalities, including Venezuelans who have been subject to Title 42 since October, had averaged 95 per day, down 95% from the 1,231 daily arrests previously reported. this month, a DHS official said. “In January, we saw the lowest number of Border Patrol arrests since February 2021,” the official said.
The use of Title 42 by the Joe Biden government has been widely criticized by human rights organizations and even some members of the Democratic Party. “On land, at the frontier, many people of these four nations wait on the mexico side He is desperately trying to get an appointment (with the CBP One asylum application that failed to meet the demand),” Yael Schacher, America and Europe Director of the International Rescue Committee organisation, told EFE. Just as they would have done before being subject to Title 42, there was danger rather than surrender. or the risk of distress and crossing the border in secret.
At the end of January, a group of 80 Democratic congressmen led by Senator Robert Menéndez asked the Executive to reverse its decision to deport people from Cuba, Nicaragua, and Haiti, who crossed the Mexican border. “Title 42 is a mockery of national and international law,” they wrote. The Biden government has defended itself against criticism and assured: must continue to implement that program at his command. The Supreme Court, which in December accepted petitions from nearly twenty Republican-led states and ruled that Title 42 should remain active.
The government plans to ban people who cross the border irregularly from entering the United States for five years, as well as expand regulations restricting access to asylum at the border. The regulation, inherited from the term of former President Donald Trump (2017-2021), has allowed for more than 2.5 million arrests since it went into effect in 2020, according to International Rescue Committee data.