Today, after a federal judge overturned the mask mandate for air travel, Jen Psaki called the ruling a “disappointing decision” and said “the CDC continues recommending wearing a mask on public transit.”
But some issues, such as immigration, are seemingly immune to the Covid-regulation craze. With the ACLU and other border activists breathing down Biden’s neck, the White House has decided to terminate Title 42 — a Covid-related limit on immigration — in late May.
Time and time again, the Biden administration has said that Title 42 is not border-control policy, sticking by its open-border narrative. When the rule’s termination was announced, CDC director Rochelle Walensky wrote that there is “no longer a public health justification for [Title 42].” Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Title 42 is “not an immigration authority, but rather a public health authority.”
But the narrative is just a narrative. The truth has always been that the Biden administration used Title 42 as a crutch amid a worsening crisis at the border. Officials shamefully hid behind the Covid-mitigation narrative to minimize criticism and justify some border-control policy.
Democrats such as Psaki are perfectly happy cleaving to Covid-related controls. That is, until an even bigger progressive “cause” comes into question.