15 States Ask Federal Judge to Keep Title 42 in Place

On Monday, 15 states asked a federal judge to keep Title 42 in place, a COVID-19-era policy which allows Border Patrol agents to quickly expel immigrants from crossing the border into the U.S. 

Last week, as Julio covered, Title 42 was given an expiration date of Dec. 21. The 15 states that asked the judge to keep the policy in place said that lifting Title 42 it will “directly harm” the states and “impose financial burdens” on them. “The States have sovereign an …