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The impact of Title 42 on access to asylum and formal deportation processes for individuals at the U.S.-Mexico border.
— a public‑health authority pressed into service at the in March 2020 — transformed how removals were counted and carried out in 2020–2021 by converting rapid, summary expulsions into the dominant for...
The 2023 Circumvention of Lawful Pathways () rule raised the procedural and legal bar for migrants arriving outside ports of entry and—combined with the 2024 “Securing the Border” interim final rule (...
Title 42 transformed a public-health statute into a border enforcement tool that authorized immediate "expulsions" of migrants without standard immigration process, dramatically constraining asylum ac...
Fiscal-year and calendar tallies show a clear contrast: 2024 saw far fewer Border Patrol apprehensions on the southwest border than the surge years that followed 2020, with Border Patrol apprehensions...
Operation Streamline is a federal program that mass-criminally prosecutes unauthorized border crossers and has been documented to funnel some people who express fear of return into criminal courts rat...
Since 2024, coordination between the United States and El Salvador on migrants labeled as gang-affiliated has combined formal agreements, ad hoc operational deals and law-enforcement cooperation — fro...
Claims that President Biden presides over “open borders” overstate the reality: his administration has both expanded lawful pathways and repeatedly tightened enforcement when encounters surged, while ...
Two sets of policies — public‑health expulsions under Title 42 and courtroom-wait rules like Remain in Mexico (MPP) — plus the creation and rollback of large parole programs (CBP One and CHNV) were th...
U.S. border enforcement has swung between aggressive restriction and calibrated pauses as administrations and Congress reshaped tools, funding, and legal authorities—resulting in cycles of expulsions,...
Legal reviews and human-rights organizations uniformly described Trump-era asylum and border enforcement policies as sweeping, aggressive, and often legally problematic, arguing they curtailed access ...
Title 42 was a public-health authority the U.S. used to rapidly expel migrants at the southern border during the COVID era, authorizing more than 1.7 million expulsions through early 2022 and becoming...
The Trump administration sharply narrowed both refugee resettlement and asylum access through lower presidential refugee ceilings, travel bans and executive orders that halted processing and redirecte...