Title 42 US immigration rule to be dropped in late May

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : The DHS said that such scenarios, according to the contingency plan, would overwhelm US immigration authorities at the border and would require the government to dispatch thousands of federal employees to the southern border, double the number of buses and planes to transport migrants, and greatly increase capacity at Customs and Border Protection (CBP) immigration processing centers.
56% : Meanwhile, CBP has recently launched a new initiative to vaccinate thousands of migrants a day against the coronavirus.
48% : However, Republican lawmakers and some centrist Democrats, called on the Biden administration to keep the rule in place, claiming that revoking it would spark a sharp increase in migrant arrivals that would overwhelm US immigration authorities at the southern border with Mexico.
41% : On March 4, a Washington D.C. federal appeals court ruled that the administration could use Title 42 to remove migrant families to places where the threat of harm was apparent, finding that the measure does not override US laws designed to protect people seeking asylum, fleeing persecution or torture.
38% : A letter to Biden, written by Democratic Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly of Arizona, said: "Given the impact 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."
26% : Despite the Biden administration carrying out more removals under Title 42 than the Trump administration, Biden officials were quick to point out that they have faced an unprecedented number of migrant arrivals at the southern border since Biden took office.

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