Biden administration ends Trump-era border policy for unaccompanied migrant children

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Two children cross the Rio Grande in Juarez, Mexico, on March 27, 2021, to surrender to a border patrol agent with the intention of requesting political asylum in the United States.

(CNN) - The Biden administration partially pulled back a controversial Trump-era border policy early Saturday after a Texas court ruling forced the administration's hand and amid fierce criticism from President Joe Biden's allies over the continued use of the policy.

While Biden has conveyed progress in combating the coronavirus pandemic, the administration has sent a conflicting message on the border by continuing to largely bar migrants from seeking asylum using a pandemic emergency rule.

But in the early hours of Saturday morning, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention terminated the public health order known as Title 42 as it relates to unaccompanied migrant children arriving at the US-Mexico border.

The Biden administration had already exempted minors arriving at the border without their parents from being subject to the authority, but a court ruling last week would've forced the administration to restart the expulsion of minors.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/12/politics/biden-title-42-immigration-migrant-children/?hpt=ob_blogfooterold

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