A federal judge on Tuesday struck down the CDC's Title 42 border policy which both the Trump and Biden administrations used to expel asylum-seekers by citing concerns about the spread of Covid-19.
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The policy was struck down by a federal judge in D.C. because it was in violation of federal law.
If an appeal is filed, Sullivan will deny any request for a stay.
In the fiscal year that ended in September, the Border Patrol arrested more people along the U.S.-Mexico border than it has ever done in a single year.
Under Title 42, immigration authorities quickly deported migrants who were from Mexico and other countries and sent them back to the other side of the southern border before they could apply for asylum in the United States. After a group of Republican state attorneys general filed a lawsuit, a federal judge in Louisiana blocked the removal of the policy for single adults. The policy should have never been enacted according to Sullivan. Despite a stated goal of ending Title 42, federal authorities have continued to use the policy as an immigration control measure despite the record surge of migrants at the border.
The Republican governors of Texas, Arizona, and Florida launched programs to transport migrants left along the southern border to Democratic northern cities in response to the policies of the Biden Administration.
A judge has stopped the Biden administration from ending Title 42 migrant policy.
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