Report: Trump to Rebuild Title 42 Border Barrier; Donald Trump ‘Looking at’ Title 42 Executive Order on Day One

Report: Trump to Rebuild Title 42 Border Barrier

President-elect Donald Trump will revive the Title 42 border barrier in his first days back on the job, according to a January 9 report in Axios.

On Wednesday night, according to Axios, “[GOP] Senators were given previews of some of what they were told would be 100 executive orders, two sources who were in the room told Axios.”

Trump was accompanied by his top advisers, including Stephen Miller, the migration czar.

The pending executive orders take time to implement and may face lawsuits once they are announced, but they will include “Building the border wall, constructing soft-sided facilities to hold migrants and implementing other asylum restrictions,” Axios reported.

For example, Trump needs money to finish the wall and to build detention centers for illegal migrants — and is planning to get those funds via a massive, fast-track reconciliation bill early in 2025.

The Title 42 legal barrier would make the existing but incomplete border wall far more effective by allowing the border patrol to send all caught migrants back into Mexico.

The rule must be triggered by health officials, such as the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). But it will take time for the Senate to approve a CDC leader who can restart the legal barrier — and that barrier may be blocked by lawsuits claiming there is no medical rationale.

The executive actions are very visible displays of Trump’s promise to block new southern migration and to deport the huge population of illegal migrants.

However, Trump’s business allies will try to keep many quick fixes off the list of executive orders.

Those quick fixes include a crackdown on airport migrants who use B-1/B-2 visitor visas to enter the United States for illegal work, and he could issue a mandate to the IRS to check tax records for corporate hiring of illegal migrants. Trump also could order his deputies to stop giving work permits to the spouses of H-1B migrants, and he could freeze the award of work permits and green cards to migrants who were improperly welcomed by President Joe Biden’s pro-migration officials. —>READ MORE HERE

Donald Trump ‘Looking at’ Title 42 Executive Order on Day One

What’s New

President-elect Donald Trump is “looking at” rolling out an executive order on day one of his presidency to address Title 42.

Incoming White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that Trump’s first executive orders could include measures that deny many migrants asylum.

“He will use the power of his pen to deliver on many of the promises he made to the American people on the campaign trail to secure our southern border,” Leavitt said on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures.

“Well, securing the southern border, perhaps looking at Title 42,” she added on the show. “Many of these executive actions are still being considered by our policy teams and also our lawyers.”

Newsweek has contacted the Trump-Vance transition team for comment via email outside of normal office hours.

Why It Matters

Title 42 was a controversial Trump-era policy implemented during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic that allowed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to prohibit the entry of individuals into the U.S. if entry could pose a risk of introducing a communicable disease.

People fleeing violence or persecution were forced to wait in dangerous conditions in Mexico or other countries while being barred from entering the U.S. This led to significant humanitarian concerns.

What To Know

Title 42 refers to a public health law that was originally part of the U.S. Code in the 1940s. The law, specifically Section 265, denied many migrants the ability to seek asylum, a right enshrined in U.S. law and international treaties.

Its introduction in March 2020 represented a significant shift in immigration policy, limiting asylum and raising questions about the intersection of health concerns and immigration enforcement. —>READ MORE HERE

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