The White House asks the Supreme Court to reject the postponement of Trump's immigration policy

MADRID, 21 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The White House has filed an appeal with the United States Supreme Court asking it to reject the Republican attempt to postpone the end of the Trump-era border policy, known as Title 42, and which was originally supposed to be in effect only until this Wednesday. .

The White House petition comes a day after the US Supreme Court admitted a petition filed by attorneys general from Texas and 18 other GOP-led states to uphold the rule, which allows authorities to immediately expel to migrants at the US borders.

In this sense, the US government has recognized that the end of Title 42 "will probably lead to interruptions and a temporary increase in illegal border crossings", although it has reiterated its request to the Supreme Court to reject the Republican efforts to lengthen the doctrine , as reported by CNN.

"The Government in no way seeks to minimize the severity of that problem. But the solution to that immigration problem cannot be to extend indefinitely a public health measure that is now recognized by all as having outgrown its public health justification," the Department said. of Justice in a statement.

Likewise, he has defended that states do not have "the legal right" to challenge the opinion of a federal district court that annulled Trump's border policy and ordered its termination before this Wednesday.

The president of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, announced Monday in a brief order the permanence of the rule, thus responding to the request of the attorneys general of Texas and 18 other conservative states.

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, who has taken up the states' proposal, stated that "getting rid of Title 42 will recklessly and needlessly endanger more Americans and immigrants by exacerbating the catastrophe occurring at our southern border." .

He also estimated that illegal crossings will increase "from 7,000 per day to 18,000," according to CNN.

This judicial dispute takes place days after the town of El Paso, in Texas, declared a state of emergency in anticipation of the entry of a large influx of migrants after the repeal of Title 42.

In a statement, the mayor, Oscar Leeser, stated that hundreds of migrants are on the streets "in unsafe conditions" all while temperatures begin to drop.