Title 42 explained: What is it, why is it ending, what's next?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : This is honestly the fourth time that we've seen this Title 42 is going to end and every time we come to this situation before the crisis is this uptick in illegal immigration...
59% : The expiration of Title 42 is widely anticipated to cause a surge of migrants at the southern border, with border patrol preparing for as many as 10,000 migrants a day.
51% : The rule, which President Biden kept in place after taking office, has been used more than 2.8 million times since March 2020 to quickly expel migrants to Mexico or their home country without allowing them to seek asylum.
50% :What has been done at the southern border ahead of its expiration?
50% : Beyond its new asylum rule, the Biden administration is also surging resources to the southern border -- including 1,500 military personnel, 24,000 law enforcement personnel and 1,100 new border patrol processing coordinators -- in an effort to contain the potential fallout from Title 42's end.
49% : The policy, which is similar to another Trump-era rule, would block migrants from seeking asylum in the U.S. if they passed through another country along the way that also offers asylum.
45% : However, even as the Title 42 restrictions are lifted, the administration unveiled a new rule on Wednesday that would dramatically limit asylum.
33% : "The rule presumes that those who do not use lawful pathways to enter the United States are ineligible for asylum."
11% : The Trump administration implemented the rule in the early stages of the pandemic, citing the "serious danger of the further introduction of COVID-19 into the United States," according to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP).

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