President Joe Biden’s administration late March 12 said it was formally ending the expulsion of illegal immigrant children through use of a pandemic-era rule. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), terminated the public health order known as Title 42 with respect to youth who arrive at the border without a responsible adult, a group known as unaccompanied children. Title 42, imposed during the Trump administration, enabled immigration authorities to expel illegal immigrants because of fears they posed a health threat amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Soon after Biden took office in 2021, the government stopped expelling unaccompanied children, alleging doing so was cruel and inhumane. But U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, a Trump nominee, ruled on March 4 that the administration could no longer exempt unaccompanied youth from Title 42. The children “spend, on average, more than a day clustered at a DHS facility, …