The judge blocked Title 42, which allowed the deportation of immigrants to the United States

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked Title 42, a controversial provision that allowed U.S. officials to remove more than 1 million migrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border.

Although the rule was written by the Trump administration during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Biden administration has relied heavily on it to manage the surge of immigrants at the border.

District Judge Emmett Sullivan in Washington found the Title 42 order “arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act.”

Before Title 42, all immigrants apprehended at the border were processed under immigration law.

Thousands of migrants who have been sent back to Mexico are waiting at the border in shelters.

Officials have previously raised concerns about the end of Title 42 because of limited resources and large numbers of people trying to enter the country.

The ban came from the American Civil Liberties Union (Aclu), along with other immigrant advocacy groups, covering all demographic groups, including single adults and families. Unaccompanied children are already exempted from the order.

The public health commission was implemented at the start of the coronavirus pandemic and has been criticized by immigrant advocates, lawyers and health experts, who argue that it has no basis in health and puts immigrants at risk.

Sullivan had previously blocked the Biden administration from deporting immigrant families with children detained at the US-Mexico border.

Earlier this year, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced plans to repeal the order.

The CDC said at the time that it was no longer necessary due to current public health conditions and the availability of vaccines and treatments for Covid-19.

But in May, a federal judge in Louisiana blocked the Biden administration from ending Title 42.

Since that court order, the administration has continued to rely on Title 42 and, more recently, expanded it to include Venezuelan immigrants who have arrived in large numbers at the southern U.S. border.

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