KFF January 17, 2025
Introduction
Title 42 of the Public Health Services Act is a public health authority that authorizes the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to suspend entry of individuals into the U.S. to protect public health. This rarely utilized authority was implemented by the Trump administration in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to allow for quick expulsion of migrants, including asylum seekers, seeking entry into the U.S. at the land borders. After a series of delays due to court challenges, the restrictions were lifted when the Biden Administration declared an end to the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) on May 11, 2023. The Biden administration subsequently took increasingly restrictive executive action to restrict border...
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