Biden Admin. Will Expel Thousands More Vulnerable People Under Title 42

For Immediate Release: October 13, 2022

El Paso, Texas — Last night, the Biden administration announced it reached an agreement with Mexico that will allow U.S. authorities to send Venezuelan migrants back across the border under Title 42, while allowing others to apply for legal entry through U.S. consulates abroad. 

Those applicants must have a person or organization willing to sponsor them financially, and present themselves at U.S. consulates abroad, not at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Marisa Limón-Garza, Executive Director of Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center shared the following statement: 

"While 24,000 Venezuelans will be spared Title 42's inhumanity, thousands more will face violence and danger. For too long, Black and indigenous migrants have been disproportionately impacted by Title 42’s unlawfulness. This policy makes that bias worse. Everyday, Las Americas’ teams in Mexico witness the fear and injury migrants undergo because of this policy. It’s time for our government to strengthen, not weaken, the principle that access to asylum is a right for all, not a privilege for a select few. We urge the Biden administration to provide infrastructure funding to support a safe, orderly, and humane asylum process - not one that deters and externalizes the right to asylum.”