Title 42 allows U.S. border officials to quickly expel migrants and asylum-seekers on public health grounds.
Border patrol agents talk to a group of migrants, mostly from African countries, before processing them after they crossed the US-Mexico border, taken from Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on November 11, 2022.Since March 2020, U.S. authorities along the border with Mexico have carried out more than 2.4 million migrant expulsions under Title 42, according toWhile Title 42 applies to both land borders, U.S.
Like the Trump administration, Biden officials have used Title 42 to expel most migrant adults traveling without children. Approximately two-thirds of the 2.7 million U.S. border encounters with single adults under the Biden administration have led to a Title 42 expulsion, CBP statistics show. Under Mr. Biden, Mexican officials along some of the busiest parts of the border refused to accept migrant families with young children. Over the past year, U.S. border authorities also encountered record numbers of Venezuelans, Nicaraguans and Cubans, who generally can't be expelled to Mexico or their home countries.
Since the Biden administration discontinued family detention, most migrant families with children who are not expelled are released with instructions to check-in with immigration officials or a notice to appear in an immigration court, where they can seek asylum.
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