Judge blocks Title 42 policy that allowed officials to expel migrants at border

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A federal judge has blocked the use of Title 42, a Trump-era policy used to expel more than 1 million migrants at the nation’s Southern border.
US District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan said Tuesday the order was “arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act,” arguing that the policy hasn’t been updated to align with the present state of the pandemic, which includes widely available vaccines, treatments and an increase in travel in the United States.
Sullivan’s 49-page opinion says his decision by him precludes families from being deported based on the Title 42 policy, which sought to exclude many migrants because they could be infected with coronavirus. However, a two-page order the judge also issued Tuesday seems to sweep more broadly, voiding “all orders and decision memos issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services suspending the right to introduce certain persons into the United States.”
Spokespeople for the White House and the Justice Department had no immediate comment on the ruling or whether the administration would appeal the decision from Sullivan, a Washington-based appointee of President Bill Clinton.