The U.S. government's top public health expert on migration told Congress he refused to approve a policy allowing mass expulsions at the U.S.-Mexico border because he believed the measure unfairly stigmatized migrants as spreaders of COVID-19.
Cetron's internal opposition to Title 42 undermines the CDC's public defense of the policy, which both the Trump and Biden administrations have defended as a pandemic tool designed to curb COVID-19 outbreaks in border facilities.
Migrants board a US Border Patrol van after crossing into the US from Mexico through a gap in the border wall between Algodones, Mexico, and Yuma, Arizona, on May 16, 2022.In May, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, who had issued an order in August 2021 defending Title 42,the border measure was no longer needed because of improving pandemic conditions, including increased vaccination rates in the U.S. and in migrants' home countries.
Lee Gelernt, an American Civil Liberties Union Lawyer who's asking a federal court to invalide Title 42, said the U.S. government could've implemented"less restrictive" coronavirus mitigation steps,"without the need for the extraordinary step of expelling asylum-seekers to grave danger." "They were not comfortable with having any part of it," a former senior CDC official told CBS News, referring to Cetron and his team."We knew the [Trump] administration and Stephen Miller, especifically, had wanted to do this from day one."
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