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Top State adviser leaves post, rips Biden’s use of Trump-era Title 42
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| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Oct 06, 2021 11:43am |
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| Author | Alex Thompson and Alexander Ward |
| News Date | Monday, October 4, 2021 07:25:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A senior State Department official is leaving his role in the Biden administration. And on his way out, he has sent a scathing internal memo criticizing the president’s use of a Trump-era policy to expel migrants from the southern border.
In a detailed legal memo dated October 2 and obtained by POLITICO, Harold Koh, a senior adviser and the sole political appointee on the State Department’s legal team, called the use of the public health authority known as Title 42 “illegal,” “inhumane” and “not worthy of this Administration that I so strongly support.”
“I believe this Administration’s current implementation of the Title 42 authority continues to violate our legal obligation not to expel or return (“refouler”) individuals who fear persecution, death, or torture, especially migrants fleeing from Haiti,” the memo reads. He added that “lawful, more humane alternatives plainly exist.” |
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