At 11.59 pm, Eastern Time last Thursday, immigration policy changed dramatically.

The controversial immigration program, known as Title 42, came to an end.

Former President Donald Trump had invoked this policy in the midst of the pandemic.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has decided to exercise its authority under

the Title 42 of the U.S. Code to give customers a border protection, the tools that needs to

prevent the transmission of the virus.

The virus being COVID-19.

When Trump announced this plan, it was exploding across the U.S.

And while the public health emergency was the official justification, Trump implied this

was something he'd wanted to do anyways.

We've had this problem for decades, for decades, you know, the story.

But now it's with the national emergencies and all of the other things that we've declared,

we can actually do something about it.

We're taking a very strong hold of that.

In Title 42, did fundamentally change the way border agents dealt with people crossing

into the U.S.

Rather than detaining migrants or releasing them into the United States, they could process

and expel them in minutes.

And they did just that, more than 2.8 million times since the beginning of the pandemic.

And in the days and weeks leading up to last Thursday night, concern about the impact at

the border swirls.

The influx of migrants is only expected to grow by the time Title 42 ends on Thursday,

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