MSNBC American Voices With Alicia Menendez June 4, 2024 22:38:00
Title 42 was put in place. it was a huge aberration from our policy. it was the first time that the ability of people to seek asylum, just the chance that asylum had been paused since 1980. it was originally a stephen miller policy, the cdc pushed back against it. they did not believe that you could use the guise of public health to stop the ability of people to seek asylum even then at the beginning of the coronavirus. it lost all rationale with respect to public health because it was like taking the classic example of taking a hatchet where you could use a scalpel. there were other ways to m...