U.S. Supreme Court’s Roberts temporarily blocks end to pandemic-era border restrictions

(Reuters) – Chief U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts on Monday at the request of Republican officials in 19 states temporarily blocked the Biden administration from later this week ending a pandemic-era policy of rapidly expelling migrants caught at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Republican officials led by the attorneys general in Arizona and Louisiana on Monday asked the Supreme Court to act after a federal appeals court on Friday declined to put on hold a judge’s ruling last month that invalidated an emergency order known as Title 42. The policy is set to expire Wednesday.

(Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston; Writing by Eric Beech; Editing by Caitlin Webber)