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A pregnant immigrant from Haiti is assisted by her partner (left, center) and another immigrant while having contractions after she crossed from Mexico, with the U.S.-Mexico border barrier in the background, on May 21, 2022, in San Luis, Arizona. A U.S. Border Patrol agent soon opened a gate in the border barrier to allow paramedics to reach her, while she was still technically in the United States. She had been stranded behind the barrier with other immigrants, some of whom said they had been waiting for two days to be picked up by Border Patrol. Title 42, the controversial pandemic-era border policy enacted by former President Trump, which cites COVID-19 as the reason to rapidly expel asylum seekers at the U.S. border, was set to officially expire on May 23rd. A federal judge in Louisiana delivered a ruling yesterday blocking the Biden administration from lifting Title 42. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)