Title 42 expulsion

And Michael spoke to our group about the history of the border and shared his own story.

And at the time, the border was experiencing a record-breaking number of migrant encounters and also policies like Title 42, and remained in Mexico that returned most migrants back to Mexico.

So let's just say our group didn't have a high opinion of Border Patrol at the time, but meeting Michael and hearing his story gave me a different perspective, and I'm so glad that we can hear from him today.

Michael, welcome to Hope in Action.

You had, in 2020, because of the pandemic, a pretextually justified border closure that essentially ground asylum-seeking to a halt.

And then, you know, deep hopes that under the Biden administration that, you know, Title 42, which was that border closure based on the or supposedly based on the pandemic, we thought that that would be unwound.

And unfortunately, the Biden administration, at least initially, took no action there.

So we were stuck in this world where you have asylum seekers stuck on the southern side of the border in Mexico.

Meanwhile, Hondurans struggle to be allowed to pursue asylum after entering the country.

The opposite fortunes illustrate the dual nature of border enforcement under pandemic-era limits on seeking asylum, known as Title 42 authority.

President Biden wanted them to end today, but a federal judge in Louisiana issued a nationwide injunction that keeps them intact.

Some nationalities are heavily affected by Title 42, while others are not.

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