A new bill introduced by a Texas state legislator would keep Title 42, the federal public health order that allows for the rapid expulsion of migrants to stop the spread of COVID-19, in place in Texas until all federal mandates and other travel warnings are lifted. In an interview with Fox4, LPHS attorney David Coale says the proposal raises some serious jurisdictional concerns by linking public health and immigration policy at the state level. "The problem is at the federal level you can do that because the federal government has authority over immigration in our country,” he says. “But at the state level, no matter how well-founded, sincere, well-documented your concern may be about public health, you can't go that extra step and connect it to immigration policy."

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