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Government Accountability Project Applauds the Biden Administration’s Responsible Immigration Policy Changes

The end of Title 42 and requirement of vaccinating detained migrants marks an improvement in the treatment of detainees.

WASHINGTON – The Biden administration last week officially announced its plans to end the use of Title 42 and to begin requiring coronavirus vaccinations for adult migrants being held at the border. Both announcements come a year after our clients and Department of Homeland Security medical subject matter experts in detention health, Drs. Scott Allen, Pamela McPherson, and Josiah “Jody” Rich, released protected whistleblower disclosures decrying the use of Title 42 as unwarranted on public health grounds and as a driver of child separation and detention, as well as calling for vaccine and boosters to be supplied in immigration detention settings to protect immigrants, workers, and the public from the spread of COVD-19.

Title 42 was a Trump-era border policy issued by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), continued by the Biden administration, that denied entry to asylum seekers and expelled those seeking protection from persecution and torture under the guise of a pandemic response. Title 42 faced widespread criticism from public health experts that the CDC did not have a legitimate basis for its implementation. In May of 2021, Drs. Allen and McPherson submitted a whistleblower disclosure to Congress raising...

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