Title 42 allows migrants to be expelled from the U.S. on public health grounds and was first enacted in response to COVID-19.
. The policy allows the U.S. government to expel those who have recently been in a country where there has been a communicable disease outbreak.
In the story that Brown shared, it was reported that Dr. Marty Cetron, director of global migration and quarantine at the CDC, told a House subcommittee in May that he refused to approve the policy, saying that it would"unfairly stigmatize migrants as spreaders of COVID-19,"In a transcript obtained by the outlet, Cetron further said that the policy would amount to a"wholesale border closure" and"risked the misuse of a public health authority.
"I was concerned that there may be a motivation that was beyond the specific public health agenda," Cetron said.
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