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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rebecca Santana

EXPLAINER: Will immigration surge as asylum rule ends?

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

Since the pandemic began, the United States has been using a public health rule designed to limit the spread of disease to expel asylum-seekers on the southern border.

Title 42, as it's called, has been used more than 2.5 million times to expel migrants since March 2020, although that number includes people who repeatedly attempted to cross the border.

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