Source: The Hill
Federal Judge Jon S. Tigar issued a nationwide injunction against the Administration’s recent asylum rule. The rule requires migrants to apply for asylum in “the first safe country” they arrive in before they are allowed to apply in the United States. Because many asylum-seekers are from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, “the first safe country” for them would be Mexico. The Judge stated, “we don’t see how anyone could read this record and think those are safe countries,” and held that the rule likely violates both the Immigration and Nationality Act and the Administrative Procedure Act. Attorney Lee Gelernt of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said, “This is the Trump administration’s most extreme run at an asylum ban yet. It clearly violates domestic and international law, and cannot stand.”
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