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The president helped move the rhetorical goalposts, but the broader problem is less easily addressed.

The future of Title 42 remains undecided in the new year after the U.S. Supreme Court pushed off making a decision.

Mark Brnovich led the fight to keep Title 42 in place. He explains to NPR why he and other state AGs want to keep it in effect until the surge of migrants at the southern border is under control.

Title 42 is set to expire on Wednesday, but the White House told reporters on Monday that this will not signal that borders will be open.

The following is a transcript of an interview with White House adviser Keisha Lance Bottoms that aired on Sunday, Dec. 18. 2022, on "Face the Nation."

It's politically convenient to blame migrants for the coronavirus surge in the United States, but it's not defensible.

AdvertisementHealthcare workers at the University Medical Center of El Paso told Douglas’ lawyer and his uncle Joel, who’d traveled from San Francisco, that his hands probably need to be amputated. President Biden has kept the controversial policy, known as Title 42, in place. “There is no asylum anymore,” Douglas said the Border Patrol agents stationed at his room told him. Under Title 42, border officials have rapidly expelled hundreds of thousands of migrants , including asylum seekers and unaccompanied children, without due process. Lawyers who sued the Trump administration over Title 42 have said it violates a range of U.S. laws.