Washington [US], December 28: The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that it has upheld a measure allowing the deportation of migrants from the border, which was passed during the Covid-19 pandemic.
In favor of maintaining the measure, based on the Public Health Act of 1944, were 19 US states that fear a large influx of migrants across the border with Mexico if it were repealed.
That measure was introduced at the beginning of the pandemic, during the administration of then-President Donald Trump. Based on it, the authorities, citing the prevention of the spread of covid-19, expelled 2.5 million asylum seekers and rejected most of the others.
The Supreme Court has now kept the measure indefinitely, dashing the hopes of representatives of the settlers who expected it to be repealed.
Representatives of immigrants filed a lawsuit to suspend the implementation of that measure because it is against the US international obligations towards people fleeing persecution in the US, and they also believe that this policy is outdated because it was overcome by calming the pandemic.
The Supreme Court's decision came as thousands of migrants gathered on the Mexican side of the border, hoping that the measure based on sanitary restrictions would be lifted and they would be able to enter the US.
Source: Beta News Agency
