Judge orders border officials to stop expelling migrant children due to virus

On Wednesday, a judge put their foot down by requiring border agents to stop expelling migrant children without them being able to seek humanitarian refuge.

The judgment is in response to a pandemic-era policy used by President Donald Trump to restrict legal defenses in support of migrant children being held in immigration’s custody, per CBS News.

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The Trump administration claims these expulsions are necessary to prevent the spread of COVID-19. It mentions a 19th-century law that says the U.S. is “to prohibit, in whole or in part, the introduction of persons” who could spread disease inside the U.S.

Critics have called leaving children at the boarder unjust.

“This cruel and unlawful policy, like so many others from the Trump administration, was putting thousands of children in grave danger,” said Lee Gelernt, the head American Civil Liberties Union lawyer of the case, per CBS News. “Not surprisingly, all three federal judges who have looked at it have concluded it should be halted.”

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