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Complete coverage of U.S. immigration policy Title 42

A person in a green uniform stretches out his right arm as a line of people walk by outdoors.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent leads a group of women to vehicles headed to processing outside Tijuana on Thursday.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
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Title 42, a public health statute that allowed the U.S. to swiftly expel migrants who crossed the border with Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic, was lifted May 11.

The decades-old statute was invoked by the Trump administration in March 2020 at the start of the pandemic. The policy has expired, along with the country’s COVID-19 health emergency.

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