Court allows U.S. border officials to continue expelling migrant families

An appeals court on Thursday suspended a federal judge's order that would have barred the Biden administration from using a pandemic-era border policy to expel migrant families with little to no due process.

The federal judge's order paused by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals would have required the Biden administration to process all migrant families with children under U.S. immigration laws, which allow them to seek asylum or other forms of humanitarian refuge.

At the center of the court case is a public health authority, colloquially known as Title 42, which U.S. border officials have used to expel hundreds of thousands of migrants without court hearings or asylum screenings since March 2020, when the Trump administration enacted the policy.