On Monday, the Biden administration was supposed to lift a public health order that was introduced along the U.S.-Mexico border at the beginning of the pandemic. Title 42, as it is known, gives U.S. border agents authority to stop asylum seekers from entering the country because of COVID-19 concerns.
But on Friday, a federal judge in Louisiana issued a preliminary injunction blocking the administration’s plans to suspend the measure.
Alisa Reznick, a reporter with KJZZ’s Fronteras desk, discusses the implications of the decision for migrants in Nogales, Mexico, who hope to enter the U.S. on humanitarian grounds.
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