Title 42 is making headlines everyday, but the arcane law has left many people confused about what exactly it is, why it’s ending on Dec. 21, and what will happen when it goes away. Here’s a …
Title 42 is a law currently enforced by Border Patrol that gives the government power to stop people entering the US in order to keep diseases out of the country.
Immigrants seeking asylum turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents after wading across the Rio Grande to El Paso, Texas on December 18.When Biden assumed the presidency, he continued to enforce Title 42 with one important change from his predecessor. Biden said Border Patrol agents were only allowed to expel migrants from certain “non-asylum countries” under his direction.
The U.S. can also repatriate migrants by flying them home, but it can’t use that method for migrants from Cuba and Venezuela as Washington DC has no diplomatic relationships with Caracas or Havana.Title 42 is supposed to be a health policy — not an immigration policy — and after a lengthy battle on its legality, a federal judge told the Biden administration in November it must end its use of Title 42 by Dec. 21.
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