GOP Senators Reintroduce Plan to Fight Fentanyl Crisis with Title 42: ‘Innocent American Lives Hang in the Balance’

In 2020, in the midst of the Chinese coronavirus crisis, former President Donald Trump invoked Title 42 at the border to ensure that federal immigration officials could quickly return illegal aliens to Mexico for the sake of public health.

On May 11, though, the Biden administration is ending Title 42 — a plan that has at least 35,000 migrants waiting to rush the border in Juarez, Mexico, alone, and which could spur close to 400,000 border crossers and illegal aliens arriving monthly.

To prevent such a fiasco at the border, Blackburn and Hagerty have reintroduced their bill to keep Title 42 and use it to fight the nation’s fentanyl crisis, which is helping to kill more than 100,000 Americans annually.

“Expanding Title 42 to include drug smuggling will give U.S. Border Patrol agents a necessary tool to significantly curb this Biden-fueled crisis and keep Americans safer,” Blackburn said in a statement.

Hagerty said it is “unconscionable” for Congress to allow Title 42 to end.