Judge reinstates block on Trump’s asylum ban for migrants at southern border

The Hill – by Chris Mills Rodrigo

A federal judge in California on Monday reinstated a ban on a Trump administration policy that would restrict migrants’ ability to apply for asylum at the southern border.

U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar had issued a nationwide injunction in July blocking the rule, which would make most asylum-seekers who pass through another country before reaching the U.S. ineligible for asylum, with exceptions for victims of trafficking and migrants who have been denied asylum in the countries they traveled through.

The rule would primarily effect Central American immigrants crossing through Mexico.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Tigar’s initial ruling but narrowed the injunction to only border states within its jurisdiction — California and Arizona — before sending the question back to Tigar.

Tigar said Monday that the injunction should apply nationwide because the asylum rule represents a case where “such breadth is necessary to remedy a plaintiffs harm.”

The Trump administration last month asked the Supreme Court to lift his injunction.

“The injunction now in effect is deeply flawed and should be stayed pending appeal and pending any further proceedings in this Court,” Solicitor General Noel Francisco said in a filing.

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