Judge Orders Biden Administration Not to End Title 42 Border Powers

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President Joe Biden’s administration must stop implementing an order that terminates the Title 42 emergency border powers, a federal judge said on April 27.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had recently started scaling back in its use of the powers in preparation for their termination, currently scheduled for late May.

Federal health officials decided the powers, which enable quick expulsion of illegal aliens due to fears of them bringing COVID-19 into the country, were no longer needed due to rising access to vaccines and treatments and the low level of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the United States.

Instead of immediately terminating Title 42, the Biden administration announced on April 1 that it would end on May 23.

“Defendants, including DHS and all of its subdivisions, agencies, and employees, are hereby enjoined and restrained from implementing the Termination Order … and are further enjoined and restrained from reducing processing of migrants pursuant to Title 42,” U.S. District Judge Robert Summerhays, a Trump appointee, said in a temporary restraining order.

The block is only in place for two weeks, unless the judge extends it.

The order was imposed on the request of 21 states, including Arizona and Missouri. Attorneys general argued the implementation of the termination order violated federal law. Summerhays agreed.

“The plaintiff states have demonstrated a substantial likelihood of success on the merits with respect to their claims that the termination order was not issued in compliance with the Administrative Procedure Act,” the judge wrote, echoing his comments during a status conference in which he announced his intent to issue the restraining order.

“The court further concludes that the plaintiff states have established a substantial threat of immediate and irreparable injury resulting from the early implementation of Title 42, including unrecoverable costs on healthcare, law enforcement, detention, education, and other services for migrants, and further that the balance of harms and the public interest both favor issuance of a temporary restraining order,” he added.

DHS had acknowledged scaling back use of Title 42 in preparation of the emergency powers ending. The agency “has begun in recent weeks to increase the use of expedited removal for some single adults eligible for removal who would otherwise be expelled pursuant to Title 42,” Blas Nunez-Neto, acting assistant secretary for border and immigration policy, told the court in a recent declaration.

Once Title 42 does end, immigration authorities will rely on a federal law called Title 8 that also enables expulsions, but not if an illegal immigrant claims asylum.

Since Nov. 5, 2021, 512,115 expulsions have been completed under Title 42, compared to 529,843 under Title 8, officials said in a filing this week.

By Zachary Stieber

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