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Biden Under Pressure Over ‘Public Health’ Border Expulsions Zolan Kanno-Youngs © Guillermo Arias/Agence France-Presse Getty Images A makeshift camp for asylum seekers near a border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, this month. The Biden administration has largely kept intact a policy known as Title 42 that turns away most migrants. WASHINGTON President Biden is coming under increasing pressure to abandon a Trump-era immigration rule that has sealed off the United States to most migrants during the pandemic, with human rights officials and two of the administration’s own medical consultants saying the measure endangers vulnerable families. The policy, known as Title 42, allows border agents to turn away migrants at the southern border without giving them a chance to apply for protections in the United States. The order justifies the expulsions as a health measure to prevent the coronavirus from spreading in holding facilities.

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