With the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention set to announce the lifting of the Trump-era Title 42 health policy at any time, law enforcement and elected officials along the southern border tell The Post they are in the dark about what the plan will be to respond to an expected rush of illegal immigrants – or whether a plan even exists.“There is no plan,” Don McLaughlin, mayor of Uvalde, Texas – a town of approximately 15,000 which sits roughly 60 miles from the Mexico frontier – asserted this week.Title 42 has been in place since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, and allows border authorities to immediately expel migrants who attempt to cross into the US on public health grounds without allowing them a chance to claim asylum. The policy has been used more than 1.7 million times, according to official estimates.
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