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Title 42
December 28, 2022
Prem Thakker
Supreme Court Orders the U.S. to Keep Violating Its Own Laws and Reject Asylum Seekers
The Calvinball court is at it again with its recent Title 42 decision.
November 29, 2022
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Timothy Noah
Kevin McCarthy’s Pledge to Impeach Mayorkas Is a Gift to Democrats
He doesn’t even know why he wants to put the homeland security chief on trial. Neither does McCarthy’s rival for the speakership, Representative Andy Biggs.
November 18, 2022
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Felipe De La Hoz
Biden Has Five Weeks to Replace the Trump-Era Asylum Process With a Better One
Now that a federal judge has vacated Title 42, which used the pandemic as a pretext for expelling asylees, the White House will have to adapt on the fly.
August 22, 2022
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Felipe De La Hoz
What Joe Biden Can Learn From Stephen Miller (Yes, Seriously)
Trump’s most infamous adviser ran roughshod over immigration policy during his White House tenure. Here’s how his techniques can be used for good.
June 30, 2022
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Felipe De La Hoz
The Supreme Court’s “Remain in Mexico” Ruling Is a Tiny Step Toward Fixing Our Gruesome Immigration Policy
There are many policies that have forced asylum-seekers into horrifying conditions, like those that caused the deaths of 53 people in San Antonio.
April 27, 2022
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Daniel Strauss
Republicans’ Midterm Play: Scare Up Another Border Crisis
They’re even talking about impeaching the DHS secretary. And Senate Democratic incumbents in purple states are running away from the White House.
April 21, 2022
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Felipe De La Hoz
Biden Is Finally (Maybe!) Ending Title 42. But Trump’s Cruel Border Policies Aren’t Over.
“What is most needed on the border is not resources. It’s a change in mentality.”
April 8, 2022
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Grace Segers
Democrats Break With Biden on Title 42 Border Policy
Several Democrats, some of whom face tough reelections, oppose the administration’s decision to lift the Trump-era immigration order.
March 30, 2022
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Grace Segers
Biden May Finally End a Brutal, Trump-Era Immigration Policy
The end of Title 42 would be a boon to asylum-seekers and their advocates. It may also fuel a political firestorm.
February 22, 2022
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Felipe De La Hoz
Biden’s Unconscionable Embrace of Trump’s Cruel Migrant-Expulsion Scheme
Trump used the Covid pandemic as an excuse to invoke Title 42 and kick out migrants at the U.S. border. Now Biden is doing the exact same thing.
December 6, 2021
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Maria Inés Taracena
Haitian Asylum-Seekers Are Being Mistreated in ICE Detention
As the media moves on from the horrors of Del Rio, Haitian asylum-seekers allege brutal conditions in an ICE facility in New Mexico.
October 26, 2021
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Joe Penney
Tapachula, Mexico, Is an Open-Air Immigration Prison for the U.S.
More than 30,000 Haitians and many others are stuck in limbo at the Southern Mexico border.
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