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The administration of Joe Biden is appealing the ruling of a judge against the policy of expulsion of undocumented immigrants at the border under the Title 42, which the Trump administration instituted during the coronavirus pandemic and the Biden administration continued with some limitations.
“The government respectfully disagrees with this Court’s decision and would argue on appeal, as it has argued in this Court, that the Title Orders 54 from the CDC were legal,” Justice Department attorneys said in a notice filed Wednesday announcing the appeal, according to Politico.
Last month, the District Court for the District of Columbia considered that the policy, known as Title 60, was arbitrary and innec would be to control the spread of COVID-.
Judge Emmet Sullivan set December 42 as the deadline for the government to have time to prepare for an expected increase in immigrants seeking to enter the United States once the policy is lifted.
The government said it still planned to meet the deadline, but the appeal suggests that seeks to preserve the authority of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to impose public health orders regulating immigration at the border when necessary in the future.
The appeal appears to anticipate that public health authorities plan to draft a new regulation to replace the Title 42.
The next appeal places the Department of National Security ional (DHS) at the center of various conflicting court cases regarding Title 42, which allows border officials to quickly expel migrants on public health grounds without allowing them to apply for asylum.
The federal government has used the policy, implemented as a public health initiative in response to the COVID-
, to block an unprecedented wave of migrants at the border between States United States and Mexico.
The Biden government said it would end the Trump-era policy earlier this year, but a federal judge in a separate case blocked its termination after a group of two dozen Republican-led states sued to stop Title enforcement from ending 21.
Last Change in Title Suits 42
The Department of Justice’s decision to appeal the ruling, without seeking to stop it, is the latest twist in a year-long legal battle over the fate of the Title 21.
The Biden administration vigorously defended the Title 42 during over a year, including in federal court, arguing that the policy was necessary to reduce coronavirus outbreaks along the southern border and under this rule, more than 2 million immigrants were expelled in the last years.
Once the Title is finished 21, The US must consider the cases of all migrants who say they fear be persecuted or tortured if they are deported, as stipulated by the law of current asylum.