Take Action: Biden must end expelling immigrants at the border

Tell Congress to Act now to Save Migrant Lives Urging Biden to Immigrant Expulsions

Since the beginning of February 2021, hundreds of, mainly black and brown migrants, have been forced on ICE planes and hastily deported back to dangers that they fled from without receiving a chance to access asylum, adequate due process and humanitarian protections.

Lives are in jeopardy and time is of the essence. Immediate concrete action must take place to protect migrants like ending the former administration’s deadly and discriminatory Title 42 expulsion policy and suspending all deportation flights so that due process and not racism determines who can and cannot be afforded humanitarian protection. President Biden can end Title 42 and Congress must ask him to do it immediately.

The Title 42 expulsion policy was introduced on March 19, 2020, after the Trump administration directed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to issue an order, blocking immigrants from seeking asylum while allowing all economic and other travellers to enter the U.S. The Biden administration has continued this awful Trump era policy.

We reiterate our urgent recommendations to end the misuse of Title 42, on the basis of which the U.S. government is expelling asylum seekers to danger in violation of U.S. refugee law. Leading public health experts have repeatedly explained that the policy “has no scientific basis as a public health measure.” Its continued implementation prevents those waiting at ports of entry from seeking asylum, precipitates needless family separations, and particularly harms African and Haitian asylum seekers who are disparately impacted by this illegal policy

Act Now and Tell Congress that you support Biden’s humane approach to immigration and demand more concrete action to stop all expulsions and deportation. Remind Congress that time is of the essence and they must act NOW to save lives by ending dehumanizing border policies. Tell Congress act swiftly by stopping this new family separation policy of expelling immigrants at the border (Title 42) and allow for asylum to be processed at the border.

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