The Biden Administration was poised to end Title 42 on Monday, but Louisiana Judge Robert. Summerhays issued a preliminary injunction, a copy of which was obtained by Fox News, on Friday. The order to temporarily block the Biden Administration from revoking Title 42 was issued after two dozen Republican-controlled states launched a lawsuit challenging the administration.

“Today’s ruling is a significant win as Title 42 is one of the few policies that is actually working,” Arizona attorney general Mark Brnovich told Fox News about the judge’s Friday ruling. Arizona was one of three states, in addition to Louisiana and Missouri, to spearhead the lawsuit.

“I’m grateful to the court for upholding the rule of law and helping maintain some level of sanity as we continue to battle the Biden-made border crisis,” he added.

“This suit challenges an imminent, man-made, self-inflicted calamity: the abrupt elimination of the only safety valve preventing this administration’s disastrous border policies from devolving into an unmitigated catastrophe,” the complaint read.

Fox News reports that in April, the Biden administration announced its plans to lift the measure after “the CDC claimed that there was no longer a Covid-19 risk associated with processing migrants, an administration official told Politico.”

“After considering current public health conditions and an increased availability of tools to fight COVID-19 (such as highly effective vaccines and therapeutics), the CDC Director has determined that an Order suspending the right to introduce migrants into the United States is no longer necessary,” the agency wrote on its website in April.

However, “the plaintiffs, the Republican states, claimed that the decision to suspend Title 42 was extremely irresponsible as it would fuel another wave of unprecedented illegal migration but also because it violated the Administrative Procedures Act.”

The complaint cited anonymous DHS officials, who warned that “ending Title 42 would lead to what one DHS agent described as a ‘surge on top of a surge’.” It also mentioned the massive financial burden likely to be imposed on states as a result of the order.