Experts fear that scrapping the policy—which has been used to prevent migrants from making their way into the U.S.—will see a surge in immigration.
and bitter legal wrangling as Southern states fought to keep it in place., managed to stave off the inevitable for several months but since federally-mandated laws to tackle COVID-19 are all due to end on Thursday , there is now no further justification for Title 42, meaning the policy will draw to a close this week.By November 2022—almost three years after the policy began—Title 42 had been used to turn back around 2.5 million migrants,But U.S.
Abbott told a news conference Monday that lifting Title 42 would effectively lay out a welcome mat for migrants eyeing the U.S. from around the world. "It will lead to an incredible amount of people coming across the border illegally," he said, adding the move could prove to be"a catastrophic disaster."
Abbott said he plans to deploy the National Guard to the Texas-Mexico border to intercept migrants and turn them back.
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