Title 42 is being used to exploit immigrant populations in the United States. It has long been established in the US and international law that immigrants who qualify as “refugees” or “asylum seekers” are not to be returned to their home country when it could mean putting them in further danger, and should instead be accommodated accordingly. The process of determining which immigrants count as “refugees” involves screening through the US asylum system by filing a form and providing proof that they would be persecuted in their home country. This system ensures a responsibility on the US and other global north countries in power to help other countries, yet in practice, it has never been as easy as stated. Immigration has always been a hot topic with concerns that immigrant workers come and steal the jobs of US citizens, or that they bring disease with them, a historical stereotype that still finds a place in our politics today. Under the Trump administration from 2016–2020, many policies were enacted and redefined in order to act on these ideas and limit the number of people coming into the country. Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy pushed to ramp-up the criminal prosecutions of all persons trying to enter the US illegally, and this policy created a large amount of backlash because of the number of parents it separated from children, forcing them to be wardens of the state with no intentions of reuniting them with their now “criminal” parents. Fortunately with the end of Trump’s term and the beginning of Biden’s this policy was repealed and efforts were made to bring these immigrant families back together and prevent future instances from occurring, but there are still injustices that remain in the immigration system. Title 42 is in my eyes, the current biggest problem because it finds a place with today’s global pandemic, and feeds onto the stereotypes of the past that immigrants carry disease. Title 42 states that all immigrants that come from a country where a communicable disease is present can be expelled back to their country without further screening or consideration as to whether they qualify as “refugees.” In February, more than 70,000 of the 92,000 apprehensions made by border control were expelled under Title 42, demonstrating how limiting the policy makes US’s borders. Furthermore, epidemiologists claim that there is no scientific proof or reasoning for why Title 42 is in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and its various strains and that Title 42 is being used as a political tool to continue to exploit immigrant populations. I believe the straightforward solution is to repeal or redefine Title 42 because right now it is being used in a way that breaks international law, and pushes people in need away from our country and back into the hands of their persecutors. As a global superpower, the United States has a responsibility to help other people, and this starts by listening to each and every one of their cases in order to distinguish asylum seekers who need immediate assistance. The expulsions involved with Title 42 are putting people at risk; the camps near the border of California and Mexico are not safe for people to live in, and Northern Mexico is riddled with cartel gangs and human traffickers, so how can we just turn our backs on those risking their lives in search of a better chance.