Title 42: How a Public Health Law Kills Refugees

05/30/23 • 34 min

In the first of four episodes, James discusses the last three years of immigration policy and what they Myrna for people seeking refuge in the USA.

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05/30/23 • 34 min

It Could Happen Here - Title 42: How a Public Health Law Kills Refugees

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You probably don't remember the passage of Title forty two, let alone that a Title forty two tap to six a sub chapter two, Part G Section two sixty four.

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But it's a part of US federal law that gives a government the authority to take emergency action to keep communicable diseases out of the country. The portion, which allows a sweeping disregard for asylum law past in nineteen forty four, read

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