Judge orders Biden administration to stop expelling migrant families using public health order

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The Biden administration has just been blocked from using a public health order to expel migrant families.

Judge Emmet Sullivan on Thursday barred the administration from expelling migrant families at the border under Title 42, CBS News and CNN report. Given the "the wide availability of testing, vaccines, and other minimization measures," Sullivan said the court wasn't "convinced that the transmission of COVID-19 during border processing cannot be significantly mitigated."

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The judge's order doesn't take effect for two weeks, but CNN described this ruling as a "major defeat for the administration." The director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, Omar Jadwat, celebrated the decision, telling CBS, "President Biden should have ended this cruel and lawless policy long ago, and the court was correct to reject it today."

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Brendan Morrow

Brendan worked as a culture writer at The Week from 2018 to 2023, covering the entertainment industry, including film reviews, television recaps, awards season, the box office, major movie franchises and Hollywood gossip. He has written about film and television for outlets including Bloody Disgusting, Showbiz Cheat Sheet, Heavy and The Celebrity Cafe.