Breaking: Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from enforcing a new rule that made most migrants ineligible for asylum
U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar, an Obama appointee, issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against the 10-day-old rule that made migrants ineligible for asylum if they passed through another country en route to the U.S. and failed to apply for protection in that country. Most asylum seekers come from Central America.
Tigar noted during a hearing that he was not bound by the Washington judge’s decision and that he and Kelly apply precedents from different circuit courts of appeals.The government is expected to appeal Tigar’s decision to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The Washington case would be appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
During the hearing Wednesday morning, Tigar noted that the Trump administration had failed to present any evidence of the adequacy of an asylum system in Guatemala, one of the countries migrants pass through on the way to the U.S., or the ability of Mexico to process asylum applications.
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