The administration is facing a couple of legal challenges to its new policies. The first legal challenge comes from Florida, and it really targets the way the Biden administration is letting migrants out of custody into the United States. A potentially bigger threat, experts are saying, is a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. And if the ACLU succeeds, that could be very difficult for the Biden administration.
For weeks, officials have feared that the end of Title 42 would create a crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border that would strain and possibly cripple America’s immigration system.
Natalie Kitroeff, the New York Times bureau chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, reports from the border about what actually happened when the pandemic-era policy expired.
Guest: Natalie Kitroeff, the New York Times bureau chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.
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