The Facts
On Thursday, Title 42, the COVID-era public health order that was used 2.8M times to turn away migrants at the US border since it was first instituted in March 2020, expired.
While US Customs and Border Protection announced that it has been holding as many as 28K migrants at its facilities — well beyond its stated capacity — thousands of migrants gathered on both sides of the US-Mexico border in anticipation of Title 42 ending.
The Spin
Democratic narrative
The implementation of Title 42 was a xenophobic move by the Trump admin. that went against the advice of public health experts. Biden's continuation of the policy was a shameful act that’s finally being rectified. The answer to slowing illegal migration is compassionate, comprehensive immigration reform, not a continuation of anything that’s been enforced under Title 42 over the past three years.
Republican narrative
Democrats will soon learn that Title 42 was better than the Biden admin.'s open border policies set to follow. Despite months of preparation for the upcoming migrant surge, the only plan Biden has come up with is to allow a flood of migrants to cross the border and to release asylum seekers into the country untracked. This could have tragic consequences that Title 42 would have prevented.
