US Supreme Court keeps COVID border policy to block migrants
28 December 2022 |
3:15 pm
Title 42 is contentious as a pandemic-era restriction on immigration that some states have lobbied to retain. The rule will remain in place until the Supreme Court makes its final judgment next year.
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