US Politics
Marion McKeone: Breaking point – the US border towns facing a migrant humanitarian disaster
Title 42 was brought in during the Covid pandemic, restricting inward migration on the basis of a possible threat to public health – but following a court case, it expires this week
From Washington, DC to the border towns of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, America is bracing itself for a massive surge of asylum seekers and migrants crossing its southern border when Title 42 restrictions end this Wednesday.
Title 42 was imposed by Donald Trump, the former president, in March 2020 at the onset of the Covid pandemic. The regulation, part of a 1944 public health law, allows the federal government to refuse admission to ...