I'm Kimberly Atkins' store and this is on point.

It started on March 20, 2020 at the very start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

To confront these public health degrees, 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 coming

through both the northern and the southern borders.

Under Title 42, President Donald Trump essentially closed the U.S. border to all migrants, including

asylum seekers.

Title 42 is a public health statute that dates all the way back to 1893 when the U.S. wanted

to stop the spread of cholera by regulating shipping containers coming into the country.

The statute was then revised in 1944, giving the federal government the authority to suspend

to entries and imports in order to prevent the spread of disease.

It has been used very few times and never quite like this before.

You come to the United States and you make your case that you seek asylum based on the following

premise, why I deserve it under American law.

They're sitting in a squalor on the other side of the river.

That was Joe Biden during a presidential debate against Donald Trump back in October 2020.

In April 2020, then U.S. Senator and now Vice President Kamala Harris signed a letter to

the Trump administration asking them to end the policy stating, quote, this amounts to

a startling expansion of executive power under the guise of a global pandemic response.

So many people thought when Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the presidential election in 2020,

Title 42 would quickly be lifted.

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