Court issues temporary policy ban and says US president may not circumvent Congress A federal judge in California has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from refusing asylum to migrants who cross the US southern border illegally, marking a meaningful blow to the president’s crackdown on immigration.
Trump signed a proclamation on 9 November declaring that people who crossed the border between official US ports of entry would be ineligible for asylum. The move was among the most audacious in the administration’s anti-immigrant agenda as federal laws enshrine the right to claim asylum irrespective of how an individual enters the country. The president had cited a threat to national security amid heightened rhetoric on a number of migrant caravans heading towards the US. Related: Trump alert to start drawdown of troops at US-Mexico border Related: America’s border wars: three weeks in a land of trauma Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com