Judge rules US can't use Covid-19 to expel migrant children

A US judge has blocked expulsions of unaccompanied migrant children entering the US, halting a pandemic-era White House policy.

Judge Emmet Sullivan of the US DC District Court said that risk of Covid-19 could not be used to turn out the minors without due process.

Since March, the White House has used an emergency health declaration to remove migrants before they could asylum.

It affected thousands of minors.