Former US President Donald Trump shared on his social media site, TruthSocial, about the expiration of Article 42 on May 11.
Stating that the relevant regulation will expire next week, Trump said, “This date will go down in history in a disgraceful way. Our borders will completely collapse. We will officially become a third world country.” used the phrase.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has announced that it will deploy 1,500 troops to the country’s southern border to support internal immigration authorities due to the expiration of Article 42.
The “Article 42” regulation, which constitutes a part of the public health law, which was put into effect by the Trump administration in 2020 due to the “public health” due to the COVID-19 epidemic, was used to deport irregular immigrants who demand humanitarian protection to Mexico by being rejected.
The current Joe Biden administration in the USA had also decided to continue the practice with the promise of designing a “humane asylum system”.
Republicans accuse the Biden administration of not taking adequate measures on issues such as illegal immigration, human and drug trafficking, while some Democrats accuse Biden’s new policies as being “anti-immigrant”, not to mention the Trump era.
According to the information shared by the US Border Patrol, most of the irregular immigrants are deported in less than 2 hours under the law in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19.