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Judge Emmett Sullivan has ordered the Biden administration to stop using Title 42, a coronavirus public health order, to expel migrants with children from the country, in a big win for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). 

The order will take effect in 14 days. 

Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia wrote that the near 200-year-old public health law cited by government does not authorize the expulsion of migrants. He wrote that it denies them the 'opportunity to seek humanitarian benefits.'

Title 42, enacted as a coronavirus prevention measure under the Trump administration but left in place under Biden, was the statute used to remove most people who were denied entry into the US. 

In August, border officials expelled 19% of those traveling as families with children. The rest were allowed into the US to seek humanitarian protection, with that number decreasing with Mexico's increasing unwillingness to take back young children not from Mexico.