Biden Kept Trump-Era Law To Expel Illegal Immigrants Over COVID-19. He’s Barely Using It.

The Biden administration turned back a fraction of illegal immigrant families crossing the U.S. southern border last week.

President Joe Biden kept in place an emergency regulation called “Title 42,” enacted by former President Donald Trump, which grants border officials the authority to expel illegal immigrant families over COVID-19 concerns. The U.S. Border Patrol used it to block 13% of families entering the U.S. illegally from March 14 to March 21, allowing the other 87% into the country for processing, according to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data viewed by Axios.