Supreme Court upholds another Trump-era border rule
The US Supreme Court has ordered the government to retain a policy allowing for the expulsion of certain migrants on public health grounds
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Supreme Court upholds another Trump-era border rule
The US Supreme Court has ruled that the federal government may not end a policy allowing for the expulsion of certain immigrants on public health grounds, initially imposed amid the Covid-19 pandemic by former President Donald Trump.
“catastrophe” and untrammeled immigration into the United States, urging the Supreme Court to delay its decision.
The court’s order was unsigned, but added that Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor would have denied the Republican officials’ request to maintain the Title 42 provisions. Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Neil Gorsuch also issued a dissent to the ruling, arguing that “the emergency on which those [Title 42] orders were premised has long since lapsed,” referring to the coronavirus pandemic.
responded to Tuesday's ruling, saying that Biden would follow the court order, and is continuing “preparations to manage the border in a secure, orderly, and humane way when Title 42 eventually lifts and will continue expanding legal pathways for immigration.”
“Title 42 is a public health measure, not an immigration enforcement measure, and it should not be extended indefinitely,” she added.
