COVID can still be declared a national emergency without completely shutting down the border. Title 42 is an overly extreme measure that has no scientific basis whatsoever. If there is no evidence of an uptick in COVID cases brought into the US by asylum seekers, the fact that we have a COVID emergency has no bearing at all.

Keep the COVID emergency in place and reopen the border to asylum seekers.

As far as I'm concerned, there are two fundamentally different issues at stake. There is no doubt that people are still feeling the economic impact of COVID and that the student loan payment pause is helping to mitigate this. There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that there is a mass influx of COVID cases being brought into America by people entering the US at the southern border. And there never was. It makes sense to keep the payment pause in effect while opening the border to asylum seekers. It's not that hard to differentiate the two issues.