Title 42 was lifted on May 11, 2023, but President Joe Biden’s asylum ban promptly took effect. “I thought that the day Title 42 was lifted would be a day of celebration,” Tania Guerrero said. “It wasn’t. … Just when we thought
The cathedral in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez previously served up to 1,000 meals daily to migrants who were unable to cross into the United States or were sent back to Mexico under a pandemic-era provision known as Title 42.
But
On May 11, Title 42 will expire. And that’s a good thing, writes the Our Sunday Visitor Editorial Board. The 2020 policy was initiated during the COVID-19 pandemic to enable U.S. border officials to expel migrants immediately in the name of public
As Title 42 draws to its scheduled close, House Republicans are planning to vote on border security legislation criticized by the U.S. bishops.
The Biden administration announced April 27 new steps it would take in an effort to reduce migrant arrivals at the U.S.-Mexico border when Title 42 expires in May.
In remarks at the State Department, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Homeland
In his first trip to the border since he took office, Biden, who is Catholic, sought to "assess border enforcement operations" and talk to those helping to manage "the historic number of migrants fleeing political oppression and gang violence in Venezuela, Haiti,
The Biden administration announced new immigration policies Jan. 5, expanding the use of Title 42 while increasing legal paths for some individuals to seek asylum while remaining in their home countries instead of migrating to the southern border.
Title 42 is a federal
In an end-of-the year decision, the Supreme Court said Dec. 27 that a federal public health rule that allows immigration officials at the border to quickly turn away migrants seeking asylum could stay in place while legal challenges to the policy played
Catholics working with migrants have mobilized to assist Venezuelans who are arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border in record numbers but are being expelled back to Mexico under pandemic-era health restrictions.
The Mexican branches of Jesuit Migration Service and Jesuit Refugee Service, along with
The much-anticipated May 23 deadline on Title 42 came and went at the U.S.-Mexico border without any changes allowing migrants in, including asylum-seekers, after a federal judge blocked the government from lifting the health measure instituted during the pandemic.
Biden administration officials had