Biden keeps in place a Trump-era order that blocks border to many migrants

The Biden administration is turning away migrant adults at the US-Mexico border. They are invoking Title 42, a pandemic health order implemented in 2020 by the Trump administration. Charlene D’Cruz, of Project Corazon, an initiative of the Lawyers for Good Government in Brownsville, Texas, tells The World’s Marco Werman the directive isn’t based in science.

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