U.S. officials say there’s been a dramatic decline in migrants trying to enter the country from Mexico since the expiration of Title 42, a strict pandemic-era policy which denied people the right to seek asylum, but allowed them to keep trying. Jackson Proskow explains the new rules, what’s happened to the thousands of migrants who rushed to the border before Title 42 ended, and how there’s still no long-term strategy for immigration reforms.
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