EXCLUSIVE: Anti-Title 42 Messages Popular With CDC Director Before She Terminated Policy, Emails Show

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : In the following months, illegal immigration plunged, in part because many illegal aliens were rapidly removed.
50% : Expulsions under Title 41 were much more common than arrests under Title 8, or federal law governing immigration enforcement, CBP statistics show.
44% : "Given the impacts that changes to Title 42 could have on border communities, border security, and migrants, we urge your Administration not to make any changes to Title 42 implementation until you are completely ready to execute and coordinate a comprehensive plan that ensures a secure, orderly, and humane process at the border," Sens. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and Krysten Sinema (D-Ariz.) wrote to Biden on March 24.
41% : On March 25, Walensky forwarded a perspective published in the New England Journal of Medicine by four doctors who claimed that the government was "misusing public health as a pretext to end asylum.""To discuss..." Walensky wrote to Berger.
41% : Once Biden took office, illegal immigration exploded to unprecedented numbers -- even with Title 42 in place.
38% : But more and more outside groups, like the American Bar Association, urged the administration to end Title 42, arguing it wasn't effective at preventing the introduction of COVID-19, that it was inconsistently applied, and that it illegally prevented immigrants from asking for asylum.
35% : Mark Morgan, the commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) during the Trump administration, said he was not surprised by the apparent imbalance of views considered by the Biden administration.

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