A U.S. Border Patrol agent instructs immigrants who had crossed the Rio Grande into El Paso, Texas on Dec. 19, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Over the weekend, El Paso declared a state of emergency, one week after a surge of asylum seekers started crossing the border, shortly overwhelming federal immigration and metropolis authorities.

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A U.S. Border Patrol agent instructs immigrants who had crossed the Rio Grande into El Paso, Texas on Dec. 19, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Over the weekend, El Paso declared a state of emergency, one week after a surge of asylum seekers started crossing the border, shortly overwhelming federal immigration and metropolis authorities.

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EL PASO, Texas – The pandemic border restrictions often called Title 42 will proceed, a minimum of for now, after the U.S. Supreme court docket has granted an Eleventh-hour request by a bunch of Republican attorneys common from 19 states searching for to increase these restrictions.

In an order signed by Justice John Roberts, the court docket requested for a response from the Biden administration by 5 p.m. japanese time Tuesday.

It’s a victory for these Republican attorneys common who argued that lifting the restrictions would seemingly trigger a surge of unlawful immigration on the southern border. The restrictions — first put in place by the Trump administration in March of 2020 — had been set to elevate Wednesday at midnight.

The delay is one other setback for immigrant advocates, who’ve lengthy argued that Title 42 was meant to dam entry to asylum protections underneath the pretense of defending public well being in the course of the worst components of the pandemic.

Meanwhile, the border metropolis of El Paso has seen 1000’s of migrants arrive in latest days. In a press convention Monday evening, El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser says shelters in Juarez, Mexcio are full and believes that 20,000 migrants there are ready to cross into El Paso. Despite the keep, town continues to be transferring ahead with emergency planning, together with standing up an operations middle.

In a press release Monday, the Department of Homeland Security wrote:

“As required by the Supreme Court’s administrative stay order, the Title 42 public health order will remain in effect at this time and individuals who attempt to enter the United States unlawfully will continue to be expelled to Mexico.” The assertion then inspired Congress to “provide the funds” DHS has requested for border safety and to “advance the comprehensive immigration measures President Biden proposed on his first day in office.”

Last month, Federal District Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled that the Title 42 restrictions are illegal and ordered the Biden administration to cease utilizing the coverage. But the decide stayed his personal ruling to permit the Biden administration time to arrange.

Federal and native officers had been bracing for an inflow of migrants who’ve been ready in border communities from Reynosa, Mexico to Tijuana, Mexico. The Biden administration has reportedly been contemplating major new restrictions to asylum access, though officers insist no last choices have been made.

When the Title 42 restrictions started greater than two years in the past underneath former President Trump, immigration authorities used the coverage to shortly expel almost all migrants they encountered — with out giving them an opportunity to ask for asylum safety or different protections underneath U.S. legislation.

Shortly after taking workplace, the Biden administration exempted unaccompanied migrant youngsters from the coverage. It has additionally allowed many migrant households to hunt asylum within the U.S. Still, the administration saved Title 42 in place for over a yr, and defended it in court docket as essential to forestall the unfold of COVID-19.

In April of this yr, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated the Title 42 restrictions have been not essential to guard public well being and moved to terminate the coverage.

But that effort was blocked by a federal judge in Louisiana, in a separate case introduced by a bunch of Republican attorneys common. They argued that the CDC didn’t undergo the correct procedures to finish Title 42, and will have thought of the affect on state well being care methods and different prices.

Since then, immigration authorities have continued to implement the coverage for single adults and a few households, expelling migrants nicely over two million occasions since Biden took workplace.