Federal judge in Louisiana blocks Biden administration from ending Title 42 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/federal-judge-in-louisiana-blocks-biden-administration-from-ending-title-42/ar-AAXxki4 🦍📡🇺🇸✴️✴️✴️✴️👁👁🤬 A federal judge in Louisiana on Friday prevented the Biden administration from reopening the borders to migrants and asylum seekers, a position backed by 24 states pressing concerns about the costs of illegal immigration and the spread of covid-19.

U.S. Judge Robert Summerhays issued a preliminary injunction, siding with states that argued the expected border influx would impose costs on them for services such as health care and education.

“These costs are not recoverable,” the judge wrote. “The Plaintiff States thus satisfy the irreparable harm requirement for a preliminary injunction.”

He said the government could have considered the states’ concerns and perhaps devised an alternative to a “blanket” order that ended Title 42.

The nationwide preliminary injunction is a blow to Biden’s promise to reopen the borders and means that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is expected to continue expelling migrants as the lawsuit makes its way through the courts. But the ruling also offers the White House a respite from border-related political pressures ahead of the November congressional elections, when Democrats risk losing their narrow hold on the House and the Senate.

The ruling delivered a victory to Republican attorneys general who had sued to block the Biden administration from reversing the Trump administration policy.