Immigrants keep warm by a fireplace at dawn after spending the night outside next to the U.S.-Mexico border fence on December 22, 2022 in El Paso, Texas.
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The Supreme Court on Thursday canceled upcoming arguments on a case difficult the Biden administration’s decision to finish the Trump-era immigration policy on asylum seekers generally known as Title 42.
The move got here per week after the Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court to remove the case from its docket. The case, which is being pursued by a gaggle of Republican attorneys general, had been scheduled for oral arguments on March 1.
The Supreme Court, in its docket entry Thursday, noted that the case had been “removed” from the present argument calendar. The docket didn’t reflect the explanation for the choice, nor did it indicate if the case could still be argued at a later date.
Title 42 allowed the US to deport migrants looking for asylum more quickly than normally permitted. The policy was implemented in March 2020 under the administration of then-President Donald Trump in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Human rights groups and plenty of health experts criticized Title 42. They said claims of public health concerns were getting used as a canopy to conduct arbitrary mass deportations on the southern border.
To date, greater than 2 million migrants have been deported under Title 42. A lot of the deportations have occurred on the border with Mexico.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention order on Title 42 says the policy should end when the declaration of a public health emergency from the pandemic expires.
The Biden administration has said the emergency will end on May 11. The DOJ argued to the Supreme Court that the choice renders moot the case looking for to take care of Title 42.
President Donald Trump speaks during his visit to a bit of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Otay Mesa, California, September 18, 2019.
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A federal judge, who was hearing a lawsuit filed by asylum seekers, ruled last fall that Title 42 violated federal law since it was “arbitrary and capricious.”
The GOP attorneys general then sought to intervene within the case to defend the policy. The Supreme Court in December said Title 42 had to stay in place because it considered whether the states had the legal standing to intervene within the case.
