A federal appeals court on Friday rejected an effort by 19 Republican states to keep in place the Title 42 border policy.
The ruling from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals means the policy is expected to end on Dec. 21 unless further appeals are filed by then. The states are expected to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Introduced in March 2020, Title 42 uses emergency public health authority to allow U.S. border authorities to block asylum claims at the U.S. borders on the grounds of keeping contagious diseases out of the United States amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The policy has been used over 2.5 million times to quickly expel illegal immigrants, mainly at the U.S.–Mexico border….