Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Asylum Restrictions

NBC News reports:

A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration’s latest move to widely restrict asylum for migrants coming to the southern border, according to court documents.

U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar in California issued the preliminary injunction blocking the new asylum restrictions Wednesday afternoon, just hours after a hearing where he grilled a government attorney over the new sweeping change to asylum policy.

The policy, announced by the Trump administration last week, would broadly end asylum eligibility for migrants who pass through another country on their journey to the United States’ southern border with Mexico but do not attempt to seek the protection in those other countries first.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge blocks Trump administration from enforcing new asylum restrictions for people crossing US-Mexico border https://t.co/sSVwkR1XHM

— Meg Kinnard (@MegKinnardAP) July 24, 2019