WASHINGTON — One of the most expansive immigration restrictions along the U.S.-Mexico border remained in force on Tuesday evening as lawyers for the Biden administration, migrant rights activists and Republican governors debated its continued use in written briefs submitted to the Supreme Court.

Government lawyers acknowledged that the end of the restrictions, which are known as Title 42, would “likely lead to disruption and a temporary increase in unlawful border crossings.”

“The government in no way seeks to minimize the seriousness of that problem,” the lawyers said in their brief. “But the solution to that immigration problem cannot be to extend indefinitely a public health measure that all now acknowledge has outlived its public health justification.”

Still, the lawyers asked that the court keep Title 42 in place until after Christmas so the government could get the proper resources in place.

Title 42 has not “outlived its public health justification” as the government insists. The criminal element is bringing in fentanyl, cocaine, Covid-19 and other illnesses. We do not know who these people are, how many are from countries, such as Iran, Iraq, Russia, Afghanistan, and African countries. The diseases they import go well beyond Covid. The Supreme Court will take all of this