“A Trump administration immigration order, Title 42, that allowed U.S. border officials to quickly expel migrants at the U.S. southern border—with no exceptions for asylum-seekers—expired on May 11, 2023,” Ernesto Castañeda writes. “But its legacy of restricting asylum petitions may continue as President Joe Biden takes steps to reduce the flow of illegal immigration to the country.”
Ernesto Castañeda
Ernesto Castañeda is an associate professor of Sociology at American University in Washington, D.C., where he is the founding director of the Immigration Lab, and is affiliated with the Center of Latin American and Latino Studies, the Center on Health Risk and Society, the Metropolitan Policy Center, and the Transatlantic Policy Center.
