Appeals Court Preserves CDC Title 42 Migrant Expulsion Protocol
District of Columbia | October 1, 2021
The United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia granted the Biden administration a stay against a lower court’s injunction requiring the federal government to stop using the Title 42 COVID protection protocol. The Title 42 coronavirus protection protocol allows officials to expel migrant family units from the country. The D.C. Court of Appeals issued the stay hours before the Border Patrol was set to begin releasing all migrant family unit migrants with a child into the United States.
The court issued the stay to the earlier injunction in the case of Huisha-Huisha v Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security in his official capacity, et al., filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and several migrant rights groups. The lower courts injunction, issued by Federal District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan on September 16, prohibited the Biden administration from removing any migrant family with a child under the age of 18 from the country under the CDC’s Title 42 protocol put in place during the Trump administration.
As reported by Breitbart Texas, the Border Patrol was prepared to release all migrant family units as of Thursday. The appellate court’s stay of the lower court’s injunction will allow the agency to continue with self-imposed, limited application of the Title 42 COVID-19 emergency order and swiftly expel some migrant family units from the United States…. (Excerpts from Breitbart)