19 GOP-led states ask appeals court to delay end of Title 42 border restrictions
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Washington — Nineteen Republican-controlled states filed an emergency legal request late Monday to try to delay the termination of pandemic-related restrictions that have allowed U.S. border authorities to swiftly turn away certain migrants on public health grounds.
A coalition of Republican attorneys general asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to suspend a lower court order that found the border restrictions, known as Title 42, to be unlawful. Unless it is paused, the lower court ruling will require border officials to halt the migrant expulsions on Dec. 21.
Lawyers representing the Republican-led states argued that Title 42's cancellation would fuel an "enormous disaster" along the U.S.-Mexico border, where federal officials intercepted migrants more than 2.3 million times in fiscal year 2022, a record high.
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