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Trump 'searching for disease to justify closing US-Mexico border' and expel migrants on health grounds


Published on 2025-01-10 20:00:48 - MSN
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  • Donald Trump is planning to seal off the US-Mexican border by invoking public health emergency powers, a report has claimed. The President-elect's advisers have spent months searching for diseases that would allow them to justify closing the border using Title 42,

The article from MSN discusses former President Donald Trump's interest in using public health concerns as a pretext to close the U.S.-Mexico border and expel migrants. Trump has reportedly been exploring the idea of citing a disease outbreak to justify these actions, aiming to leverage health regulations to enforce stricter immigration policies. This approach echoes his previous administration's use of Title 42, a public health order that allowed for the rapid expulsion of migrants at the border under the guise of preventing the spread of COVID-19. Critics argue that this strategy is more about immigration control than public health, pointing out that such measures disproportionately affect asylum seekers and could be seen as a misuse of health policy for political ends.

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