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U.S. House Democrats applaud end of Trump-era policy on migrants at the border

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According to this article on Florida Phoenix, by ARIANA FIGUEROA

“WASHINGTON — Democrats at a U.S. House Homeland Security panel hearing on Wednesday praised the end of a Trump-era policy that turned away migrants pleading for asylum at the border.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that the so-called Title 42 policy, enacted on public health grounds at the beginning of the pandemic, will end on May 23.

“This order was a pretext to close the border to Black, Brown, and Indigenous people,” the chair of the Border Security, Facilitation, & Operations Subcommittee, Nanette Barragán, said.

“Leading medical experts have consistently argued throughout Title 42’s use that there has never been a solid public health justification for closing our border just to asylum seekers,” the California Democrat said.

However, the announcement has sparked debate — several U.S. Senate Democrats are breaking with the Biden administration’s decision to lift the policy, while Republicans continue to strongly criticize it and predict a surge in immigration.”

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