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Biden has only difficult options for dealing with migration

The Biden administration has very few options to deal with migrant families at the border when Title 42 lifts next month. It's likely to be one of President Biden's biggest challenges.
President Biden walks along the US-Mexico border fence in El Paso, Texas, on January 8, 2023.

The crowd of migrants gathering at the southern U.S. border has been swelling with the growing anticipation of the end of a Trump-era policy that allows the government to turn away asylum seekers.

The challenge for President Biden was underscored last week when dozens of migrants died in a fire at an immigration detention center across the border in Ciudad Juárez.

Mexican authorities say the migrants lit the fire in protest after being told they would be deported. But advocates and even former U.S. government officials say that's far from the full story.

They argue the deadly fire should never have happened and are placing at least some of the blame on the Biden administration and its expansion of the policy, known as Title 42.

Its use forces the migrants into dangerous, overcrowded conditions in Mexico,

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