Migrants are brining TB and Lord knows what else across the border. Inventing a justification for a medical screening hold on the border is a perfect example of something the administration could easily do...

...if it wanted to.

No, it can't. The regulation isn't based on the mere fact that an individual might have a communicable disease - it's based on whether the country they're coming from has an especially high incidence of the disease that it poses a justification for shutting the border to that country. And TB incidence in those countries just isn't all that high. Unlike Covid, TB is relatively under control in the Americas - it's mostly rampant in sub-Saharan Africa.

It would never hold up in court. They were able to do it for Covid, because Covid was a real pandemic emergency. For TB, or other illnesses that are no more severe in those countries than they have been in the 80 years since Title 42 was first adopted (and never applied in this context), there's no way they'd be able to do it.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC76447...

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