GENEVA – The U.N. refugee agency made an unusual plea Thursday for the Biden administration to lift pandemic-related restrictions on people seeking asylum in the United States.
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi asked for an end to so-called Title 42 authority, named for a section of an obscure 1944 U.S.
public health law that former President Donald Trump used in March 2020 to effectively end asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border.
President Joe Biden has kept the policy in place, though he has exempted children who are traveling alone. Under the practice, people from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador are quickly expelled from the U.S.