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Immigration policies don’t deter migrants from coming to the US -- Title 42 and the border rules replacing it only make the process longer and more difficult

  • Written by Robert McKee Irwin, Deputy Director, Global Migration Center, University of California, Davis
Immigration policies don’t deter migrants from coming to the US -- Title 42 and the border rules replacing it only make the process longer and more difficultHonduran migrants head for the United States in 2019.Orlando Sierra/AFP via Getty Images

Politicians have been saying there’s an immigration crisis at the border for decades and have been trying to fix it for nearly as long. The rules have changed many times over the years – and they are about to change again as a pandemic-era set of...

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