Manchin Says Biden Should Secure Title 42 Extension

Illegal immigrants walk across the Rio Grande to surrender to U.S. Border Patrol agents in El Paso, Texas, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, on Dec.13, 2022. Herika Martinez/AFP via Getty Images

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) says President Joe Biden should request an extension of the Dec. 21 court deadline for the expiration of the Title 42 public health policy under which illegal immigrants have been expelled from the United States since the onset of the COVID pandemic.

Last month, a federal judge ruled that the policy was unlawful and gave the Biden administration until Dec. 21 to revoke the measure.