With Supreme Court halt, controversial Title 42 is in limbo -- but still in effect

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : The official stressed that CBP does not hold migrants long-term but only as long as they need to identify and classify them before the next step in their immigration enforcement.
53% : Earlier this year, DHS said they believed that as many as 18,000 people could be processed along the southern border per day.
50% : Border crossings in the past fiscal year have steadily risen, with U.S. Customs and Border Protection reporting that more than 233,000 migrants were apprehended along the southern border in November alone.
50% : © Rebecca Noble/AFP via Getty Images Asylum-seekers board a bus after being processed by US Customs and Border Patrol agents at a gap in the US-Mexico border fence near Somerton, Arizona, Dec. 26, 2022.
50% : In El Paso, Texas, one of the country's largest ports of entry along the southwest border, CBP has built one of those temporary structures near Highway 54.
48% : This will be a temporary stop before migrants are turned over to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials, who will make a determination whether to keep them in ICE detention or give them some kind of parole until their next immigration hearing.
40% :Human rights advocates argue Title 42 illegally prevents people from seeking asylum.
32% : A Supreme Court decision on Wednesday halted the looming rollback of the immigration restriction known as Title 42, preserving a controversial status quo at the southern border, which has seen record numbers of migrant encounters.

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