Texas Sues To Stop Lifting Of Trump-Era CDC Policy

The Texas Tribune reports:

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration on Friday to halt the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from lifting Title 42, a pandemic-era health order used by federal immigration officials to expel migrants, including asylum-seekers, at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Title 42, which was enacted in March 2020 by the Trump administration, has been used 1.7 million times to expel migrants.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, who is named as a defendant in the lawsuit, said on Thursday during a virtual event with the Council on Foreign Relations that health orders are not immigration policies.

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Breaking: Texas is suing the Biden administration to stop the CDC from lifting Title 42, a pandemic-era health order used to turn away migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. https://t.co/J3F4vRxJTM

— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) April 22, 2022