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Part One of the Report discusses the history of the Title 42 policy and its implementation; summarizes conclusions from prestigious public health experts’ that the policy is not medically necessary but instead a political decision to close the U.S.-Mexico border; and explains how the policy deprives migrants of their right to seek asylum or other forms of protection in the United States in violation of U.S. and international law, and the credible legal challenges to the policy currently pending in U.S. courts.
Part Two of the Report reviews the Title 42 policy’s impact on Haitian migrants, in particular the invisible wall between the United State and Mexico that the policy has created. The paper discusses the reasons that Haitians flee Haiti; their arduous journey from Haiti through South and Central America to the U.S.-Mexico border; ICE’s failure to properly screen, test or treat Haitians for COVID-19 before removing or expelling them to Haiti; and
US-Made Border Crisis Persists Despite Bidenâs About-Face on Refugee Cap
Migrants and asylum seekers are seen after spending the night in one of the car lanes off the San Ysidro Crossing Port on the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico, on April 24, 2021.
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This weekâs news of the Biden-Harris administrationâs about-face on U.S. refugee policy was a win for all the progressive forces that have been pressuring Biden to discontinue Trumpâs egregiously low cap on the number of refugees accepted each year. But the victory did nothing to change the other massive structural ways in which the Biden-Harris administration is continuing to perpetuate the humanitarian crisis at the border through its embrace of Trumpâs other asylum policies.
By Brianna Randall 30 April 2021
On a sunny day in April 2019, three elite long-distance trail runners – an American, a Mexican and a Mexican-American – met in a deep, red rock canyon on the banks of the Rio Grande in Texas. Together, they waded into the muddy waters that separate Mexico and the United States.
This was the beginning of the trio s Invisible Wall expedition, a 10-day running journey to explore the desert landscape and meet the people who live along the border. Mike Foote, Mauricio Carvajal Llaca and Mario Mendoza Jr travelled from Big Bend National Park in Texas to the Pacific Ocean at Tijuana, running more than 200km of desert trails and border roads alongside ranchers, kids, tribal members and urban jogging clubs.