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The process of evaluating asylum claims and its impact on deportation rates.
reopened formal access to asylum but transferred large numbers of people into an immigration system already stretched to breaking point, producing immediate increases in court dockets and longer waits...
A mix of court bottlenecks, congressional or state legislative moves, and administrative changes to together determine whether in 2026; increased , fewer releases, and faster interior arrests have dri...
— a public‑health provision dating to 1944 that the invoked during COVID‑19 — created a legal basis for rapid expulsions at the border and was used throughout to remove migrants without normal . The p...
The generated swift, partisan narratives that repeatedly distorted a handful of the bill’s technical provisions — most notably claims about mandatory universal , automatic “open border” flows or mass ...
expulsions — the -authorized public-health removals in force from March 2020 to May 11, 2023 — were folded into ’s , sharply raising the volume and changing the composition of repatriations during 202...
Title 42 transformed how encounters at the U.S.–Mexico border were processed and therefore how “removals” and “returns” were counted: by enabling near-immediate expulsions without standard Title 8 pro...
An ICE "removal" is a formal immigration enforcement action under Title 8 that follows a legal finding (often a final order) and carries statutory bars and potential criminal or administrative consequ...