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Trump Admin Planning to Bring Back Title 42 To Block Illegal Immigrants


The Trump Administration is dusting off Title 42.

Sources say the incoming team is ready to bring this back, which lets the U.S. boot illegal immigrants faster on the grounds of having a disease.

Critics are already crying foul, while Trump Admin argues it’s just the ticket to finally tame the border crisis nonsense.

Hey, whatever tools the President needs to handle the border, he needs to use them!

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New York Post reports:

The Trump administration is planning to revive a pandemic-era Title 42 policy to swiftly turn migrants away at the US border on the grounds they could potentially spread diseases like tuberculosis, a new report says.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is preparing to issue the order that would allow border officials to label illegal migrants as public health risks, CBS News reported, citing internal documents.

It wasn’t immediately clear when the measure would be implemented, but the CDC and the Department of Homeland Security are said to have been prepping for the policy change.

The health measure would reinstate the policy put in place by President Trump back in 2020 in a push to boot migrants at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

President Joe Biden kept Title 42 in place when he first took office but later scrapped it when he declared an end to the public health emergency tied to the pandemic in May 2023.

Tuberculosis, huh? Welp, see ya later.

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