The Supreme Court on Tuesday said the government could not halt the expulsion of migrants for public health reasons under the Title 42 program.
That program, which has been in place since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, must continue while courts assess a lawsuit filed by Republican officials in 19 states who say that unwinding the Title 42 policy would unleash a national"catastrophe."
The high court's unsigned order noted that Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan would have denied the emergency request from the states and allowed the administration to lift the Title 42 policy. "The only plausible reason for stepping in," Gorsuch said, has to do with the states' concerns about immigration and the situation on the border.
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