TITLE 42

A lengthy legal back and forth has come to an end. However, little change is expected after the Biden administration officially scrapped the Migrant Protection Protocols program, better known as "Remain in Mexico."

Texas and Arizona have transported thousands of migrants north in protest over the Biden border policy.

CBP estimates show one in four people agents encountered in May were caught crossing the border more than once.

Trump-appointed federal judges have blocked several of the Biden administration's changes to immigration policy.

Less than 24 hours after opening new processing facility in Eagle Pass, Border Patrol agents say its almost at capacity.

Gov. Greg Abbott continues his criticism of the Biden administration's immigration policies even as authorities expelled 200,000 immigrants in May.

In a 5–4 decision, the Court allowed the White House to end Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” program—for now.

Thursday’s decision won’t stop the border crisis or the kinds of deaths we saw on Monday.

Local officials said the victims were piled into a trailer on the side of a secluded road and discovered by a nearby worker, who heard cries for help.

The number of undocumented immigrant crossings at the border once again broke records in May, in part because of surges in migration from unexpected countries.

The city recently hosted a partisan Republican delegation to discuss Title 42 in McAllen. In fact, our South Texas congressional and state delegation along with local officials have been very vocal on this issue. And the city of McAllen and the Rio GrandeValley are only being used for their upcoming elections. A partisan event of this type would only assist in tarnishing the image our beautiful region and its people. Why does the fact of women in America being made second-class citizens not inflame all women of America?

A growing backlog of hundreds of thousands of unresolved cases has crippled the U.S. government's ability to decide asylum applications in a timely fashion.

The only thing stopping them, Villalobos said, was Title 42. “(Title 42) has been a good instrument — even though it’s not an immigration policy — to assist us with immigration. Lifting Title 42, we know that there are more than 10,000 people in Reynosa waiting to enter the U.S.,” Villalobos said in Spanish. So Title 42 should be used from that,” Smith echoed a few moments later. Nonetheless, despite the controversy that exists over Title 42, Villalobos said he welcomes lawmakers of all stripes to the border.

A Tucson, Ariz. shelter for migrant asylum seekers crossing into the US is seeing record capacity, despite a federal judge's order upholding Trump-era public health border restrictions.

Biden’s administration is facing sharp criticism from both sides of the political aisle over his immigration policies and practices. The Centers for Disease and Control, the department responsible for determining the need to keep Title 42 in place, decided to lift the policy in late May. Courts intervened and delayed it, but the public health policy is, by design, temporary and not an immigration policy. But federal, state and local leaders have expressed concern over its end. We learn from when we make mistakes, and we can admit when we don’t handle something well,” the commissioner said.

At the start of the pandemic, the Trump Administration invoked an obscure provision called Title 42 to effectively stop migration. Even as other COVID restrictions are lifted, anti-immigration politicians insist that it remain in place.

Thousands of migrants cross Mexico each year on a journey during which they face multiple dangers, including road accidents, drowning and crime.

May 23 was the day the Biden Administration hoped to end Title 42. A federal judge’s ruling allows it to stay in place, for now.

A federal judge in Louisiana issued a nationwide injunction, blocking an end to the pandemic-related limits on those seeking asylum.

A federal judge in Louisiana issued a nationwide injunction, blocking an end to the pandemic-related limits on those seeking asylum.

In one of the busiest corridors for illegal border crossings, Cubans, Colombians and Venezuelans are often released to pursue asylum in the United States.

As the sun set over the Rio Grande, about 120 Cubans, Colombians and Venezuelans who waded through waist-deep water stepped into Border Patrol vehicles, soon to be released in the United States to pursue their immigration cases. Across the border in the Mexican town of Piedras Negras, Honduran families banded together in a section of downtown with cracked sidewalks, narrow streets and few people, unsure where to spend the night because city's only shelter was full. President Joe Biden wanted to end those rules Monday, but a federal judge in Louisiana issued a nationwide injunction that keeps them intact.

U.S. District Judge Robert Summerhays out of Louisiana ordered that Title 42 remain in place while a lawsuit led by Arizona and Louisiana goes to court. These states and 22 others argue that by attempting to phase out Title 42 the administration failed to consider the effects of its removal on border states. “I have made my concerns regarding the lifting of Title 42 very clear. Greg Abbott continued his criticism of President Joe Biden’s border policies in his reaction to Friday’s ruling. “We remain vigilant in fighting the lifting of Title 42 expulsions.”

The administration was set to end Title 42, a pandemic-era rule aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19, on Monday. A lengthy legal battle is likely.

The Justice Department said the administration will appeal, but the ruling virtually ensures that restrictions will not end as planned on Monday.

A US judge says the policy that allows migrants to be expelled over Covid fears must stay in place.

Pandemic-related restrictions on migrants seeking asylum on the southern border must continue, a judge ruled Friday.

The Biden administration was set to end Title 42, a pandemic-era rule aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19, on Monday.

A federal judge in Louisiana on Friday blocked the Biden administration from lifting a...

A federal judge in Louisiana has blocked the Biden administration from lifting the pandemic border restrictions known as Title 42, which were set to end on Monday.

The administration was set to end Title 42, a pandemic-era rule aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19, on Monday. A lengthy legal battle is likely.

Judge Robert Summerhays ruled the CDC did not properly end Title 42, which allows U.S. border officials to quickly expel migrants.

A federal judge extends his temporary block of the Biden administration’s plan to lift pandemic-related border restrictions known as Title 42.

A federal judge in Louisiana is refusing to end pandemic-related restrictions on migrants seeking asylum on the southern border.

The statistic provides a glimpse into one unintended consequence of Title 42: migrant parents opting to "self-separate" from their children.

Sen. John Cornyn was critical Thursday of the Biden administration’s response, or, in his opinion, lack thereof, pertaining to Title 42, a policy barring migrants from seeking asylum in the U.S. and whose implementation is anticipated to end come Monday.

McALLEN — With early voting in the Democratic primary runoff election fully underway, Ruben Ramirez, a candidate for Texas’ 15th Congressional District, cast his ballot as he continues to appeal to voters. Ramirez, a moderate Democrat, is running in the runoff election against Michelle Vallejo, a progressive. Among their different positions are their views on Medicare-for-All, something that Vallejo supports but Ramirez adamantly opposes. “I am advocating for Medicare-For-All,” Vallejo said Monday. With just a few days left during the early voting period, Ramirez encouraged residents to stop by and get to know him.

More than 234,000 encounters occurred on the Southwest U.S. border in April, a 5.4% increase from March, data from U.S. Customs and Border Patrol shows.

Since October, Border Patrol has taken 1.5 million "enforcement actions" against people crossing from Mexico without lawful authorization.

United States Secretary of Homeland Alejandro Mayorkas is in the Rio Grande Valley as he gets an update on border security efforts.

As President Biden takes steps to end Trump-era restrictions on asylum, a slew of state politicians are trying to get us pointing fingers at asylum seekers and new immigrants. Instead, we must recommit to Texas’s welcoming tradition by extending a hand. President Biden’s administration has announced steps to end Title 42, which resulted in rapid expulsions of most people seeking safety at the Southern Border. But they need funds to shelter and provide clothes, diapers and meals to arriving asylum seekers. Together, we can ensure that Texas’s welcoming tradition does not end when asylum restrictions do.

A federal judge in Louisiana holds a hearing today about the future of Title 42. Immigrant advocates say it's the latest attempt by Republican-led states to block Biden's immigration agenda in court.

A federal judge in Louisiana is considering whether the Biden administration can end pandemic-related restrictions on migrants seeking asylum.

Before easing immigration restrictions, the U.S. needs to fix the system’s current dysfunctions.

Stacks of razor-sharp concertina wire, or c-wire, sat coiled up on a flatbed trailer parked at the entrance of federal property in Mission on Friday — a representation of the governor’s border security partnership with local landowners.

The Texas Border Coalition this week joined Hildago County Judge F. Richard Cortez in urging President Joe Biden to visit the Texas-Mexico border. Further, the letter says immigration reform “is the key to securing the border and border communities. In addition to a larger, more productive workforce, immigration reform would increase economic growth and tax revenues. The alternative is a continued reliance on an ineffective enforcement-only policy.”TBC has advocated for immigration reform over three decades, including House passage of three immigration reform bills last year, and strengthened border security through improved U.S. Customs and Border Protection manpower and technology. “President Biden, as a public servant in a border community I must implore you to visit our region before the existing (Title 42) Order is suspended,” Cortez wrote.

Abbott expanded on comments he made about how he wants to “resurrect” the 1982 U.S. Supreme Court case Plyler v. Doe, which guaranteed that public schools would educate all students regardless of citizenship status.

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Officials say the Biden administration has begun expelling Cubans and Nicaraguans to Mexico under pandemic-related powers that deny migrants a chance to seek asylum, expanding use of the rule even as it publicly says it has been trying to unwind it.

The deal is potentially significant because the Mexican government has more latitude to carry out deportation flights to Cuba and Nicaragua, nations whose frosty relations with Washington severely limit the United States’ ability to return their citizens.

Title 42 is the section of federal law that the CDC used in March 2020 to essentially close the southern U.S. border to asylum seekers.

Hidalgo County's top official is asking President Biden to visit the Rio Grande Valley before he “makes any substantial changes to the current border policy."

Kevin McCarthy’s trip to Eagle Pass laid bare the bipartisan bankruptcy of U.S. policy.

Operation Lone Star includes the deployment of thousands of state troopers and National Guard soldiers at the border, as well as Abbott’s state-funded border wall project.

Abbott said the money would be taken from the budgets of other Texas agencies, including nearly $210 million from the state’s Health and Human Services Commission over two years and about $160 million from the Texas Department of Public Safety.

The public health order that expels migrants to Mexico was launched early in the pandemic, and the Biden administration’s intention to end it has sparked a legal battle.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas defended the administration's plan to rescind pandemic-related restrictions on seeking asylum.

The decision to crowdfund the free bus trips for migrants is a new development since his initial announcement on April 6 that the rides would be paid for by Texas taxpayers.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies today before the House Judiciary Committee where he's expected to face another heated round of questioning on Title 42.

Originally, the CDC announced they would not continue extending the public health policy and migrants would no longer be sent back under it as soon as May 23. “Title 42 has serious and dire human costs,” Julia Neusner, Human Rights First associate attorney, said Wednesday. Information collected from newspapers, surveys conducted by legal partners, and other human rights reports were used to compile the spreadsheet of attacks. Unaccompanied children are not subject to Title 42 expulsions, so the mother tried sending him alone. Human Rights First attempts to educate the public on the effects of U.S. policy on people seeking refuge, but they hope their research reaches those who create policy, as well.

The Louisiana judge said he’ll hold a hearing in May to decide whether to block the administration from halting Title 42, the Trump-era health order that quickly sends all migrants back to Mexico.

A judge has ordered a two-week halt on phasing out pandemic-related restrictions on seeking asylum as the Biden administration prepares for the restrictions to be fully lifted on May 23.

Texas top military commanders say they are still waiting for life-saving gear to be delivered from manufacturers.

Texas top military commanders say they are still waiting for life-saving gear to be delivered from manufacturers.

Migrants have been expelled more than 1.8 million times under Title 42.

With voter enthusiasm among Democrats already lagging going into the midterms, immigration advocates say they will dampen it more by not calling for the 2020 public health order to be lifted.

The Biden administration has released a plan to deal with an increase in already historic numbers of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.

A Louisiana judge will grant a restraining order that will keep in place Title 42, a pandemic-era health rule that the federal government had planned to drop next month.

A GOP Congressional Delegation will tour the border and meet with residents in Eagle Pass on Monday. A small business owner says his voice has not been included in the conversation.

Texas has led the legal fight against the Biden administration’s immigration policies, filing numerous lawsuits that have led to judges overturning or altering those policies.

The number of migrants attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border has surged in recent weeks as the U.S. prepares for even larger numbers with the expected lifting of a pandemic-era order that turned away asylum seekers.

Blockades and DPS inspections may be over at Texas’ largest port of entry for fresh produce. But the loss is unrecoverable and estimated to be in the millions.

The number of migrants attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border has surged in recent weeks as the U.S. prepares for even larger numbers with the expected lifting of a pandemic-era order that turned away asylum seekers.

For Democrats, especially in Texas, tackling border issues is difficult on the campaign trail as the party is not in agreement about various policies. O’Rourke has had to distance himself from President Joe Biden’s border policies, while going after Gov. Greg Abbott’s.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection commissioner said Gov. Greg Abbott isn’t coordinating with the agency as Texas sends migrants far from their immigration proceedings.

Commercial vehicle drivers flagged for violations by DPS will not be fined, but repairs must be made on-site before getting back on the road.

Policies and protests are seeing a shift along the border, but how will the ripple effect impact you and your budget? KSAT's Alicia Barrera has the story with the latest details from the border blockade.

Less than a week after Governor Greg Abbott announced "aggressive action" at the border ahead of Title 42 ending, the busing of migrants has begun, as has mass migrant response rehearsals by the Texas Military Department.

The results of the state’s $3 billion border security effort don’t match the up-front promises, and Gov. Greg Abbott is flipping the political script with loud opposition to a change in federal border policy.

Boat blockades, container and razor wire at low-water crossings, enhanced vehicle inspections along the border and even bus transportation will take processed and released migrants to Washington D.C. in an effort to alleviate stress on the system in Texas.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott will hold a press conference Wednesday on the state’s border security efforts in light of the Biden Administration’s elimination of Title 42.

Migrants have been expelled more than 1.7 million times from the U.S. under public health powers invoked in March 2020 to prevent spread of Covid-19.

The Biden administration will drop the policy that critics have called an inhumane rule.

The Biden administration is expected to end the asylum limits at the U.S.-Mexico border by May 23 that were put in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

The Biden administration is relying on a contested Trump-era policy as it disperses thousands of Haitian migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border in and around the small South Texas city of Del Rio.

A U.S. official says the number of children traveling alone who were picked up at the Mexican border by U.S. immigration authorities likely hit an all-time high in July.

The governor said Texas needs to build a border wall to reduce migrant apprehensions and fentanyl seizures. But immigration and drug treatment experts say Abbott's oversimplifying the issue.

The U.N. refugee agency has made an unusual plea for the Biden administration to lift pandemic-related restrictions on people seeking asylum in the United States.

The aid group Doctors Without Borders says around 400 migrants expelled from the United States are camping out in a plaza in the dangerous Mexican border city of Reynosa.

According to new U.S. Customs and Border Protection figures, the number of migrants detained by U.S. authorities at the Mexico border rose 36 percent in May. CBP took 23,118 migrants into custody last month, up from 16,966 in April, the figures show. The Trump administration argues the emergency measures have aided in preventing a wider coronavirus outbreak by limiting the number of detainees held in cramped border cells. Since the implementation of the emergency orders in late March, nearly 43,000 migrants have been subjected to the rapid-expulsion proceedings, according to CBP figures. Trumps emergency restrictions have all but closed the United States to border crossers fleeing persecution, records show.