U.S. border officials have until the end of April to propose a plan to respond to a new court ruling that bars them from turning away migrant families who illegally cross the southern border amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled on Friday that the Biden administration can no longer immediately expel migrants who illegally cross the border, as has been policy over the past two years. Instead, the appeals court said migrants should be screened in interviews, and those who claim they face persecution or torture if they return to their home country may only be removed from the United States and sent to safe, third-party countries.
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