“Title 42” was invoked in March 2020 by President Donald Trump’s administration to combat the spread of covid-19. It aimed to seal America’s borders from migrants
is a public-health rule invoked in March 2020 by President Donald Trump’s administration to combat the spread of covid-19. It aimed to seal America’s borders from migrants, allowing the immediate expulsion of border-crossers, including asylum-seekers. The policy has been used in nearly 1.9m instances, and has endured despite America reopening to travellers.
Designed as a public-health measure, Title 42 is flawed as a border-management tool. Migrants do not face charges for repeated entry, as they would if they were processed under normal immigration law. This encourages repeated attempts to cross. Recidivism surged from 11% in 2018 to 27% in 2021, inflating the number of apprehensions thatreports. “Hasta mañana,” one man recently told a border official, as he was about to be expelled.
Morale among Border Patrol officers is the lowest it has been in at least 25 years, says Richard Douglas, who formerly worked forand now runs security for the East Foundation, which owns ranchland in South Texas. Around 60% ofagents have been assigned to process migrants, taking them away from field work. One border expert estimates that fewer than 20% of people trying to cross the border undetected are stopped.
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