The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced it is terminating part of a pandemic-related immigration health order that required the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to expel unaccompanied migrant children.
In 2020, President Donald Trump enacted a pandemic health order using authorities granted by the Public Health Service Act, which is codified in Title 42. Title 42 allows the U.S. government to suspend immigration from countries when there's a risk of a spread of communicable diseases into the United States. Under this emergency order from the CDC, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials were ordered to expel migrants crossing the Canadian and Mexican borders under the pretext of stopping the spread of COVID-19. Most of the expulsions happen at the southern border, with more than 400,000 Title 42 expulsions there this year compared to the northern border's 5,421.
