US Title 42 Policy to Expel Migrants at the Border
What is Title 42 and how does it work?
The Title 42 expulsion policy has effectively closed the US border to nearly all asylum seekers based on the
misapplication of an obscure, 75-year-old public health law.
Since March 2020, Customs and Border Protection has carried out
more than 642,700 expulsions under
the order, typically without conducting the required screenings.
Well before the Covid-19 pandemic, Stephen Miller, White House adviser to then-US President Donald Trump, floated the idea of using the government’s public health authority as a means of achieving the administration’s long-pursued goal of closing the border to asylum seekers.
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642,700 migrants refused entry into America because of COVID