The CDC-authorized policy, first enacted under the Trump administration, has allowed U.S. border officials to swiftly expel hundreds of thousands of migrants.
— A federal judge on Wednesday gave federal immigration authorities five weeks to stop using a public health authority known asto swiftly expel migrants, a ruling that could block the main tool the Biden administration has used to manage an unprecedented migration wave along the U.S.-Mexico border.
"This ruling is of enormous significance for asylum-seekers and will hopefully put an end to the misuse of public health laws to block desperate people from seeking protection," Lee Gelernt, the ACLU lawyer who filed the lawsuit, told CBS News. Sullivan granted the Biden administration's request on Wednesday. He wrote that he did so"WITH GREAT RELUCTANCE" because the ACLU did not oppose it and because the government said it was designed to make operational adjustments to comply with his ruling. Sullivan said his order halting Title 42 would take effect on Dec. 21 at midnight.
"It is unreasonable for the CDC to assume that it can ignore the consequences of any actions it chooses to take in the pursuit of fulfilling its goals, particularly when those actions included the extraordinary decision to suspend the codified procedural and substantive rights of non-citizens seeking safe harbor," Sullivan wrote.
In fiscal year 2022, which ended on Sept. 30, U.S. officials along the southern border stopped migrants nearly 2.4 million times, the highest annual tally on record. Over 1 million of those encounters with migrants resulted in them being expelled under Title 42, federal statistics show.
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