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Press Release

 

 

For Immediate Release  
Contact: Dan Gordon ,
617-651-0841 
March 17, 2022 

It Is Time to End Title 42  

WASHINGTON, D.C. - In the two years since Title 42 was announced, it
has proved dangerous for migrants, reduced order at the border, and
benefited smugglers and cartels. 

Furthermore, as the anniversary of its announcement approaches Sunday,
any public-health rationale for the policy has faded, experts agree
. 

Implemented by President Donald Trump at the outset of the pandemic,
Title 42

is a public-health protocol under which many migrants at the border are
expelled and denied access to the asylum system.

Already, the administration is planning for human trafficking networks
in Mexico and Central America to exploit an end to Title 42, as Axios

reports this morning. That possibility only further demonstrates the
need to wind down the policy and break the incentives that have allowed
criminal elements to take advantage of it. Migrants bear the effects:
According to an August Human Rights First report
,
there had been 6,356 publicly documented instances of kidnappings,
sexual assaults, and other violent attacks on migrants who have been
forcibly returned to Mexico under Title 42. 

The policy also inflates border-crossing numbers, as many people who are
turned away under Title 42 try to cross - and are counted -
repeatedly. According to February numbers released this week
,
repeat crossers accounted for 30% of apprehensions. 

"It is time for President Biden to end Title 42 and implement an orderly
process," said

**Ali Noorani, President and CEO of the National Immigration Forum**.
"Title 42 serves the goals of cartels and smugglers, not Americans. The
administration can take steps to replace Title 42 with policies that
better protect due process and ultimately end the current cycle of
exploitation by criminal networks.

"We can achieve border security through practical and humane processing,
along with the strategic deployment of technology and personnel. There
is no reason, public health or otherwise, to continue Title 42."

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