In recent months, the Biden administration has deported thousands of Venezuelans to Mexico under the convoluted argument that they pose a danger of introducing COVID-19 into the United States. To deal with an upsurge in immigration, the White House appealed to a Trump-era decision to deport immigrants at the border under Title 42 of the U.S. Code—a provision that allows for border agents to turn back asylum-seekers if they risk spreading a communicable disease. Those who reached the border in the hope that they could apply for asylum are now being sent to a country with which most of them have few if any links.
Even the White House admits that there is no public health justification for the measure. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called for the termination of Title 42 deportations last April, and the measure is
