EXCLUSIVE: Anti-Title 42 Messages Popular With CDC Director Before She Terminated Policy, Emails Show

Messages urging the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to end Title 42 were shared by the agency’s director with colleagues in the weeks leading up to her decision to terminate the policy, emails obtained by The Epoch Times show.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director, shared three different messages with other top officials at the agency that urged her to end Title 42, a public health order that enables quick expulsion of illegal immigrants because of concerns they have COVID-19 amid the pandemic.

The calls from the American Bar Association and two other groups claimed that Title 42 was illegally preventing asylum seekers from seeking protection and that the order violated both national and international law.

Walensky announced on April 1 that she was ending the policy, claiming that it was unnecessary due to the increasing number of people who have received COVID-19 vaccines and the availability of treatments for the disease.

“Based on the public health landscape, the current status of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the procedures in place for the processing of covered noncitizens, taking into account the inherent risks of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in congregate settings, CDC has determined that a suspension of the right to introduce such covered noncitizens is no longer necessary to protect U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents, personnel and noncitizens at the ports of entry (POE) and U.S. Border Patrol stations, and destination communities in the United States,” Walensky, an appointee, of President Joe Biden, said at the time.

SARS-CoV-2, also known as the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, causes COVID-19.

A federal judge later stopped the administration from ending Title 42.

Only Opposition

In the weeks before announcing the decision, Walensky did not send any calls to keep Title 42 in place to colleagues, the emails show.

On March 19,