JUST IN: The Supreme Court granted a GOP request for pandemic border restrictions known as Title 42 to continue for now.
A Border Patrol agent checks an asylum seeker's passport after she turned herself in, in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Dec. 19.Veronica G. Cardenas/AFP via Getty Images
Under Title 42, immigration authorities were able to quickly remove many of the migrants they encountered – without giving them a chance to ask for asylum protection or other protections under U.S. law. The restrictions were put in place as a public health order by former President Donald Trump's administration in March 2020 when COVID-19 was just beginning to surge in this country.
Under Title 42, immigration authorities were able to quickly remove many of the migrants they encountered — without giving them a chance to ask for asylum protection or other protections under U.S. law. The restrictions were put in place as a public health order by former President Donald Trump's administration in March 2020 when COVID-19 was just beginning to surge in this country., and set it to end Dec. 21. But the Supreme Court paused that ruling on Dec. 19.
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