The Trump-era order Biden is using to turn away most migrants
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Title 42, invoked last year amid COVID pandemic, allows US to immediately return adults and families at the border.
Over the past several weeks, images have emerged of crowded United States facilities filled with children who arrived at the country’s southern border with Mexico alone and in search of protection. The scenes heaped pressure on Joe Biden’s administration, which has mobilised the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to respond and authorised the use of military bases and other makeshift facilities to house the unaccompanied minors as their cases are processed. But Biden and other US government officials have also told reporters that while an exception has been made for unaccompanied children – several thousand of whom remain in US facilities – the US-Mexico border is otherwise closed.More Related News