A federal judge in Washington, D.C. ordered the Biden administration to end the use of Title 42 for expulsions by December 21.
During Operation Lone Star, the State of Texas has seized enough fentanyl to cause hundreds of millions of fatal overdoses.
Attorneys general from 20 states wrote in a letter that the panel seems to exist only to infringe on “the exercise of constitutional rights.”
The policy was instituted by the Trump administration and continued under Biden as a measure to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
President Biden criticized the decision and said the federal government “intends to appeal this decision in order to preserve and fortify DACA.”
Gov. Greg Abbott announced last week that Texas may completely reopen — at least as far as the state is concerned.
