TITLE 42

from The Military Press Newspaper February 1, 2023

My Brother’s Keeper

The Supreme Court allowed U.S. border officials to continue expelling migrants under a policy known as Title 42 indefinitely, granting a petition from Republican-led states to prevent the Biden administration from immediately ending the pandemic-related measure. The high court decided to hear a request from 19 Republican-led states who were seeking to delay the end of Title 42, which was originally set to expire on Dec. 21 because of a lower court order that found the policy to be unlawful.

The Supreme Court will now hear arguments on whether it should allow the Republican-controlled states to defend Title 42’s legality during its February 2023 session. In the meantime, the court agreed to suspend the lower court order which had invalidated the expulsion policy. That means Title 42 will likely remain in place for several months pending the high court’s review.

First invoked in March 2020, at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Title 42 is a public health law dating back to the 19th century that federal border officials have cited to expel migrants 2.5 million times to Mexico, or their home countries, without allowing them to request asylum, a right enshrined in U.S. and international refugee law.

Top officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under both the Trump and Biden administrations have insisted that Title 42 was designed to curb the spread of the coronavirus by limiting the entry of migrants. But the policy’s public health rationale has been contested by outside experts and the CDC’s own scientists.

Jackson joined conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch in opposing the Republican-led states’ request. In a dissenting opinion in which he was joined by Jackson, Gorsuch wrote that it was improper for the Supreme Court to keep the border expulsions in place, noting the GOP states did not “seriously dispute that the publichealth justification undergirding the Title 42 orders has lapsed.”

Gorsuch recognized the states’ concerns about Title 42’s termination potentially fueling a bigger spike in migrant arrivals, but he said, “the current border crisis is not a COVID crisis.”

Federal courts, he wrote, “should not be in the business of perpetuating administrative edicts designed for one emergency only because elected officials have failed to address a different emergency. We are a court of law, not policymakers of last resort.” In fiscal year 2022, a 12-month time span that ended Sept. 30., federal authorities intercepted migrants a record 2.3 million times along the U.S.-Mexico border, with just over one million of those detentions leading to expulsions under Title 42, according to Customs and Border Protection statistics. The Conservative Coalition of GOPled states that sued over Title 42’s termination this spring moved to intervene in the case in a bid to keep the expulsions in place indefinitely.

Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming have argued that Title 42’s end will worsen the humanitarian crisis along the southern border.

1948

List of 1948 Major News Events in History

Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi is murdered

Israel is declared as an independent state

The First Polaroid Camera is goes on sale at the Boston Jordan Marsh department store

British National Health Service Act creates the NHS

The World Health Organization, also known as WHO, was

The founding of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) took place

The Treaty of Brussels, also known as the Western European Treaty,

The Summer Olympics, also known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad in London

Long Playing Record USA made of vinyl and played at 33 rpm

The US and UK begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of West Berlin following the Soviet Blockade.

1948 Mercury

Technology

Porsche is founded

1 million households own Televisions was 5,000 just 3 years earlier

Inventions Invented by Inventors and Country ( or attributed to First Use )

Random Access Storage Device For Computer England by Freddie William’s team

Long Playing Record USA made of vinyl and played at 33 rpm

Transistor Radio USA from Bell Laboratories

Popular Culture

The game of Scrabble is introduced by James Brunot ( was an earlier invention by Alfred Butts in the 30’s ) they saw the game when called Lexiko and started making it in their home and changed the name to Scrabble

FILM The Red Shoes