ACLU reignites Title 42 suit, pushing Biden on border policy | TheHill

The suit was filed against the Trump administration, and the ACLU agreed to stall it when President BidenJoe BidenGOP report on COVID-19 origins homes in on lab leak theory READ: The .2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Senators introduce bipartisan infrastructure bill in rare Sunday session MORE was sworn into office. .

The government exempts children and some families from Title 42 but it is still widely used to expel single adults who seek to cross the border.

In May, the Biden administration used Title 42 to expel more than 112,000 migrants at the southern border, nearly two-thirds of the 180,000 people who attempted to cross.

The Department of Homeland Security on Friday also resumed “fast track” flights for “certain families who recently arrived at the southern border, cannot be expelled under Title 42, and do not have a legal basis to stay in the United States.”