Title 42 ’s End Won’t Affect Most Border Crossers

David J. BierThe U.S. Border Patrolcould soon lose its novel authority to expel border crossers back into Mexico under Title 42 of the U.S. code, a 19th century public health law never previously used to remove people from the United States. Since March 2020, the agency has used Title 42 to ignore the normal process to which crossers are entitled under Title 8 of the U.S. immigration code and force them back into Mexico often within a few minutes of their arrests. The government is also flying some migrants directly back to their home countries under the rule.Figure 1 shows the number of border arrests by processing type: Title 8 and Title 42. As it shows, the Title 42-era has seen a major increase in the number of total arrests. However, since April 2022, most illegal border crossers have not been subject to Title 42 expulsions. In October 2022 —the most recent month available—only 37 percent of crossers were processed under Title 42 rather than Title 8. The number of arrests under Title 8 exceed the peak of arrests under Title 8 during the Trump administration.In October 2022, 92 percent of expulsions were being used against “single adults,” adults traveling without children, and 91 percent over those expulsions are of single adults from Mexico and the Northern Triangle of Central America (Mexico, Honduras, and El Salvador). Families (adults with children) from these four countries account for another 6 percent of T itle 42 expulsions and then all other families acc...
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