Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) believes President Joe Biden has the power to request an extension of the Dec. 21 court deadline for the expiration of the Title 42 policy under which illegal immigrants have been expelled from the United States since the onset of the COVID pandemic.
Last month, a federal court judge ruled that the policy was unlawful, and gave the Biden administration until Dec. 21 to revoke the measure.
“The president can basically, I think, ask for that extension,” Manchin told CBS on Dec. 18. “I think his administration is doing that or will do that. I sure hope they do. But we need an extension until we can get a viable answer for this.”…