![]() ![]() ![]() Migrants who had crossed the Rio Grande river into the U.S. While first implemented under the Trump administration as a response to the pandemic, Title 42 has been kept in place by the courts and used by the Biden administration to deal with migrants at the border. “We in El Paso, along with many other communities along the southern border, just happened to be at the front doorstep.” “I wanted to emphasize more so than anything else at this point – this is a national issue,” Martin said. ![]() “No matter how much we are prepared, I don’t think we are going to be prepared enough,” John Martin, deputy director of the Opportunity Center for the Homeless in El Paso, Texas, told CNN on Sunday, days before the lifting of Title 42, a Trump-era policy that allowed the government to quickly turn away certain migrants at the border, originally with the aim of stopping the spread of Covid-19. The United States is bracing for the expiration of a pandemic-era border restriction this week, with officials fearing it will spur a surge of migrants and exacerbate an already challenging humanitarian crisis at the southern border. ![]()
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