Federal judge strikes down Trump-era border policy known as Title 42

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Federal immigration law allows anyone who sets foot on U.S. soil to request asylum, though they must meet specific criteria to qualify.
49% : U.S. officials have carried out more than 2.4 million expulsions, mainly from the southern border, since the previous administration issued the order in March 2020.
44% : Officials "exploited CDC's Title 42 authority to effectively close the southern border under the guise of mitigating spread of the virus," the report said.
43% : The Department of Homeland Security has said it plans to process migrants' cases quickly, granting protection to those who deserve it and deporting migrants who are ineligible for asylum.
39% : The decision - which takes effect immediately - knocks down one of the last remaining barriers to asylum from the Trump administration, advocates for immigrants said.
36% : Biden also said he wanted an orderly system that would "make it better, not worse." "The last thing we need is to say we're going to stop immediately, the access to asylum, the way it's being run now, and end up with 2 million people on our border," Biden said in December 2020 before he took office.
22% : Biden promised during his campaign to restore access to asylum - and he has rolled back a number of Trump immigration restrictions, expanding the refugee system and attempting to shield migrants from being deported.

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