The Biden administration urged the Supreme Court to let the Trump-era Title 42 border policy end as GOP-led states' push to keep it in place — but requested a short pause on lifting it for operational reasons.
Immigrants seeking asylum turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents after wading across the Rio Grande to El Paso, Texas on Dec. 18, 2022. Photo: John Moore via Getty Images
The Biden administration urged the Supreme Court Tuesday to let the Trump-era Title 42 border policy end as GOP-led statesTitle 42, which allows the U.S.
Their interest in avoiding "immigration consequences cannot justify extending a public-health measure that is no longer supported by public-health conditions."The administration, however, requested that the high court keep Title 42 in place until next week at the earliest. "[T]he government respectfully requests that, if the Court denies the application before December 23, it leave the current administrative stay in place until 11:59 p.m. on December 27," the court filing reads.
This would allow the government to prepare to return to pre-pandemic operations, "with new policies tailored to the consequences of the end of the Title 42 orders — a complex, multi-agency undertaking with policy, operational, and foreign relations dimensions," per the filing.
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