
A federal judge said Monday he intends to temporarily block the Biden administration from lifting the coronavirus border restriction known as Title 42.
It would be a victory for Republican-led states and some led by Democrats that sued to keep the immigration policy initiated in the Trump administration.
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U.S. District Judge Robert R. Summerhays of the Western District of Louisiana announced his intent to grant the motion during a virtual status conference Monday.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced this month that the administration would lift the Title 42 restrictions on May 23, allowing families and single adult asylum-seekers who had been turned away at the U.S.-Mexico border during the pandemic to enter the U.S. and make asylum claims.
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