“Instead of rethinking how we manage migration at our border, we just want to put in place policies that stop it,” one immigration expert said. “The problem is that those policies have not significantly stopped the migration.”
, the Trump Administration’s hard-line anti-immigration adviser. Miller had already pushed for the installment of the Migrant Protection Protocols, commonly referred to as the Remain in Mexico policy. For decades, people seeking asylum in the U.S. were admitted into the country while their cases were pending; under M.P.P., asylum seekers awaited their hearings in Mexico,controlled by cartels. Under Title 42, most migrants don’t even have the opportunity to apply for asylum.
But there being no process for asylum applications didn’t stop people from coming. After an initial drop in the early months of the pandemic, in May, 2020, C.B.P. began registering an uptick in “encounters”—the agency’s umbrella term for apprehensions and expulsions. Since then, the numbers have continued to rise to levels not seen since the early two-thousands.
Last month, the C.D.C. announced that it would lift Title 42 on May 23rd. The move made sense, considering that pandemic-inspired restrictions are evaporating from nearly every other sphere of life. D.H.S. said that, as a result, it expected a temporary influx at the border, and that it was preparing for as many as eighteen thousand people a day. According to Pinheiro, it’s a flow the agency should be able to handle.
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