Ohio human rights orgs call for an end to Title 42 after U.S. Supreme Court extends the policy

A coalition of national and Ohio human rights groups is calling on lawmakers to end Title 42, a pandemic-era policy that denies immigrants a chance to seek asylum.

Title 42 was set to expire this week, but the U.S. Supreme Court granted a request by Republican attorneys general who want to extend those restrictions, which allows the government to expel migrants who are seeking asylum in the United States.

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"It provided government agencies with the ability to immediately expel — not deport, because deport means there was a legal review and proceeding," says Darryl Morin with Forward Latino. "No — this was just to immediately expel these immigrants from the United States."

He says that's prevented 2.4 million immigrants from exercising a legal right.

Katie Kersh with Advocates for Basic Legal Equality in Dayton represents several asylum seekers. She says they have fled torture in their home countries.