–Mexico border once the emergency Title 42 policy is terminated. Once Title 42 does end, immigration authorities will rely on a federal law called Title 8 that also enables expulsions, but not if an illegal immigrant claims asylum.

Title 42, the emergency health restrictions enforced during the COVID-19 pandemic that allowed Border Patrol agents to turn illegal aliens back to Mexico immediately if they were deemed to pose a health threat, expired on May 11.

The Trump-era Title 42 policy allowed Border Patrol agents to turn illegal aliens back to Mexico immediately if they were deemed to pose a health threat amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The pandemic-related deal has been tangled in the fight over Title 42 in the Senate. Republicans are refusing to move the bill, pushing for keeping the health policy in place.

Brnovich said on Dec. 28 that the Supreme Court’s decision the day before to extend for the time being the Title 42 order allowing rapid removal of illegal aliens at the border on public health grounds was a “nice little bow on a holiday package.”

Wetherell issued the order just hours before Title 42 ended, suspending a pandemic-era policy that allowed border officials to rapidly turn away and expel migrants for reasons pertaining to public health.

However, that very same week, the Biden administration also announced that they would be scrapping Title 42, the emergency health measure keeping illegal migrants from coming into the country due to COVID.

the termination of the CDC's Title 42 Orders," the ruling reads.

"Let me be clear: Title 42 or not, the border is not open," Mayorkas said, referring to the public health order that allows Border Patrol agents to quickly expel some illegal aliens back to Mexico.

Herrell said in the same statement that “Title 42 border health protections may be the only thing keeping Biden’s border crisis from becoming a full-blown catastrophe."

But the Biden administration upon taking office in January rolled back use of Title 42, allowing all unaccompanied minors to stay in the country and significantly decreasing the number of family units expelled under the order.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which in August sought an injunction against Title 42, hailed Sullivan's ruling on Thursday.

Federal officials have fought in court to keep Title 42 in place, but it was ordered by courts to be lifted at midnight.

And with the recent expiration of Title 42, it would appear Abbott has resumed the practice.

The new order was made under section 362 of the Public Health Service Act, which is part of Title 42 of the U.S. code (pdf).

Title 42 was ordered in place by former President Donald Trump on March 20 last year to prohibit the "entry of certain persons who potentially pose a health risk … because they unlawfully entered the country to bypass health screening measures.”

law rather than the indefinite extension of “a public-health measure that all now acknowledge has outlived its public-health justification.”

"Title 42 is a public health authority, not an immigration authority, and its continued use is thus dictated by the CDC," DHS said.

Title 42 was created as part of the Public Health Service Act under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944 and designed to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases in the United States.

Judd was referring to Title 42, a COVID-19-era policy implemented during the Trump administration in March 2020 to quickly expel illegal immigrants on public health grounds.

Title 42 comes to an end this month. The public health provision made it easier to send illegal immigrants back to Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We write to express disapproval of any contingency plan which uses personnel from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to deal with the inevitable escalation of the border crisis once your Administration rescinds its Title 42 Order,” the senators

Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), have said that Title 42 should be ended because it's not technically an immigration policy. "Title 42 was put in place at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic as a health policy," Padilla told ABC News on Dec. 18.

Before the CDC announced its move to terminate the Title 42 order in May, then-White House communications director Kate Bedingfield stated that repealing Title 42 would result in an "influx of people to the border."

Back in March 2020, President Donald Trump implemented Title 42, an emergency health provision that essentially closed the border to non-essential travel.

President Joe Biden's administration must stop implementing an order that terminates the Title 42 emergency border powers, a federal judge said on April 27.

[Under Title 42, which Trump ordered in place on March 20, 2020, CBP says it is "prohibiting the entry of certain persons who potentially pose a health risk ... because they unlawfully entered the country to bypass health screening measures."

Title 42 was invoked in March 2020 as an order issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.