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Immigration Policy (2020-2023)

The impact of Title 42 on immigration policy and the experiments with chain expulsions and lateral flights to reduce repeat crossings.

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Jan 17, 2026
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How did Title 42 expulsions affect border encounter and removal statistics during 2020–2023, and how do analysts treat them when counting 'deportations'?

Title 42, invoked March 21, 2020 and terminated May 11, 2023, transformed how U.S. authorities recorded and resolved border encounters by creating a parallel category—“expulsions” under a public‑healt...

Jan 27, 2026

What was the total number of Title 42 expulsions from March 2020 to May 2023 and how did they affect recidivism rates?

expulsions were a massive, event-based enforcement practice at the from March 21, 2020, to May 11, 2023, and estimates of how many expulsions occurred in that window vary by data source and counting m...

Jan 26, 2026

Which policy changes or external factors correspond to major year-to-year shifts in border crossings since 1990?

at the border since 1990 have shifted in response to discrete U.S. enforcement strategies, legal-processing changes, and large external shocks — notably economic cycles, regional violence and humanita...

Jan 26, 2026

How did Title 42 and COVID-era policies change the counting of deportations under Biden?

and other COVID-era border measures reshaped not only how and whom expelled at the southern border but also the bookkeeping of removals: expulsions under Title 42 were counted differently from traditi...

Jan 25, 2026

What risks and transit routes do Somali migrants commonly face en route to the US in 2025?

seeking routes that might eventually lead to routinely travel along multiple, overlapping corridors through , and or via the “Eastern Route” toward and the Gulf, and they face a pattern of extreme dan...