Trump Plans To Reinstate Title 42 ‘On Day One’
President Joe Biden’s immigration policy has provided his political foes plenty of opportunity for criticism, including his decision to allow Title 42 to expire.
The pandemic-era rule made it easier to deport undocumented immigrants on the basis of public health concerns, and Biden received widespread backlash for his administration’s chaotic approach to ending it earlier this year.
Former President Donald Trump, who is currently Biden’s likeliest challenger in next year’s presidential race, has already indicated that he will immediately reinstate Title 42 upon being inaugurated for a second term.
Senior Trump adviser Lynne Patton outlined the agenda during a recent interview, pointing to the troubling trend of child trafficking as one primary reason that the policy should be reimplemented.
“On day one when Trump gets back in office in 2024, he has pledged to reinstate Title 42, which will immediately and safely return children, migrant children, unaccompanied minors, back to their own families in their own countries where they belong,” she said.
Asserting that Biden’s action was “extremely dangerous,” she said that allowing the provision to expire “forces migrant children to be released into the interior of the United States, where they are at the mercy of these predators.”
Patton noted that, while Title 42 was primarily enacted as a response to COVID-19, it also helped “to prevent unaccompanied minors, all these types of unsafe conditions from transpiring, and the fact that this current administration let that expire is inexplicable.”
Trump, who recently hosted a viewing of the anti-child trafficking film “Sound of Freedom” at his golf resort in New Jersey, has a long history of fighting against the disturbing crime, his adviser explained.
“And I want to say that even in the midst of all these continued false indictments this week and last week, he’s still focused on saving children,” she added.
Trump hosted Tim Ballard, whose efforts to combat child trafficking are portrayed in the film, at the White House “long before most people even knew who he was,” Patton said, noting that Ballard was later added to the Trump administration’s advisory panel to end human trafficking.
“So it’s amazing how far we’ve come today, where Joe Biden is arguably and his immigration reckless immigration policies are arguably turning the southern border into the largest human trafficking crisis in the world,” she concluded.
