The President has gotten blowback from Republicans and Democrats on his decision to throw out Donald Trump’s Title 42 policy of borate turn arounds based on the pandemic….
The latest from the Biden handlers is the President wants to fight to stay with his decision….
It’s gonna be rough…..
Maybe the judge could be the excuse to take Biden off the hook?
A federal judge in Louisiana has issued a temporary restraining order against the Biden administration forbidding it from moving ahead with its plan to end Title 42, the pandemic-era border policy.
Judge Robert R. Summerhays, of the Western District of Louisiana, issued a temporary restraining order against the Biden administration on Wednesday after signaling his intention to do so two days earlier.
The Biden administration had been on track to end the policy on May 23, a decision that has come under intense criticism from Republicans and some vulnerable Democrats up for re-election this year.
The order prohibits the Department of Homeland Security from taking steps to begin its wind-down of Title 42, such as opting to process more migrants using normal immigration channels ahead of May 23. The order doesn’t prohibit the administration from ending Title 42 on that date, though the judge, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, has set a hearing for a longer-lasting prohibition known as an injunction.
A Biden administration immigration official, asked Tuesday about the impending order, said the administration plans to comply with it but added, “We really disagree with the basic premise.”
A lawsuit brought by Arizona, Louisiana and several other Republican-led states alleged that the Biden administration had started reducing its use of Title 42 ahead of the May termination date and asked the judge to intervene urgently….
More breathing room for the Biden admin on immigration….
A federal judge on Friday blocked the Biden administration from lifting a pandemic-related health order whose scheduled expiration on Monday would have thrown open the doors of the United States to asylum seekers at the border for the first time in more than two years.
The ruling means further delays for thousands of people waiting for a chance to seek refuge in the United States, but it averts a potential crisis on the border by giving the administration more time to roll out its plan to handle the large numbers that are expected. Department of Homeland Security officials have said they were preparing for as many as 18,000 migrants a day, compared with 8,000 currently, if the order were lifted.
“The Biden administration is probably breathing a sigh of relief because they weren’t ready for the rule to be lifted,” said Wayne Cornelius, director emeritus of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego.
The sweeping public health measure, known as Title 42, was put into place in March 2020 ….
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