The Biden administration is reportedly considering ending Title 42 border protections, which the White House admitted Wednesday will bring an additional 'influx' of migrants to the border.
President Biden speaks about status of the country's fight against COVID-19 from the White House campus, Wednesday, March 30, 2022, in Washington.
White House director of communications Kate Bedingfield declined to confirm the report but said the decision of when to lift Title 42 is solely up the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . "Title 42 is a public health directive, it is not an immigration or migration enforcement measure, so the decision on when to lift Title 42, we defer to the CDC," Bedingfield responded."That being said, of course, we are planning for multiple contingencies, and we have every expectation that when the CDC ultimately decides it's appropriate to lift Title 42, there will be an influx of people to the border.
A group of asylum seekers from Mexico, Cuba and Haiti are detained by U.S. Border Patrol in San Luis, Arizona, on April 19, 2021. "And so we are doing a lot of work to plan for that contingency," she continued."I think you saw yesterday the
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