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Call for the end of Title 42, a cruel U.S. policy against Asylum Seekers

Doctors of the World USA condemns the recent extension of Title 42 expulsions at the U.S. southern border, despite the CDC’s stated position that the order should be lifted.
Title 42 has been used since 2020 by U.S. authorities to block and expel asylum seekers and other migrants from the United States under the guise of a pandemic mitigation measure. This decision endangers the lives of men, women and children who have a legal right to seek asylum and who are no more likely than anyone else in the country to carry disease.
Read the letter written by a group of public health experts, including Ron Waldman, Board President of Doctors of the World USA, urging the Biden administration to cease expansions to Title 42 and its subversion of public health to advance immigration control objectives.
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Amicus Brief on Title 42

Doctors of the World has joined with epidemiologists, public health experts, and medical professionals in filing an amicus brief on the Title 42 order that has been used to block and expel asylum seekers and other migrants from the United States under the guise of a pandemic mitigation measure. This brief has been filed in litigation pending before a federal district court in Louisiana brought by Arizona and a coalition of other states to prevent the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from terminating (on May 23, 2022) its prior Title 42 orders.
 
The public health experts’ brief addresses the lack of public health justification for the original Title 42 orders, that Title 42 expulsions have in fact undermined public health, and that existing public health measures can be implemented to safely process asylum seekers at the border. The brief was submitted with Ron Waldman, President of Doctors of the World USA.

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