A federal judge is blocking the Biden administration’s attempt to lift Title 42. The Trump era policy allows immigration authorities to turn away people at the border seeking asylum. 

“I think it’s a bad policy,” congressional representative Jim McGovern (D-Mass) said.  

McGovern is backing the Biden administration’s push to end the policy. Some Republican lawmakers said the policy needs to stay in place. 

“It’s not just unsustainable now, it will be uncontrollable then,” House minority leader Kevin McCarthy said. 

Both Democrat and Republican lawmakers have expressed concern over its removal, citing a surge of migrants. McCarthy led a group of lawmakers to the Texas-Mexico border. 

“Come here and see what’s happening before you make that decision,” McCarthy said. “The President owes it to the American people to find the truth before he makes a decision.” 

McGovern said the trip was nothing more than a show and lawmakers didn’t highlight any actual ways to fix the country’s immigration problem.

“They have no solutions to deal with the border or immigration,” McGovern said. “All they want to do is beat up on immigrants.”

The Trump era policy has been in place since March 2020, with a purpose of limiting the spread of COVID-19 throughout the country. Now, McGovern said it’s time to let people seek refuge again and create an immigration police that lives up to the values of the country.

“If someone is fleeing for their lives, if someone is being targeted, that they will be killed if sent back, do you really want to turn your back on them?” McGovern said. “That’s not what I think of when I think of the United States.”

The Biden administration was originally planning to lift the policy on May 23.