(CNN) – A federal judge on Friday, has blocked a new asylum rule that was scheduled to take effect Monday. It’s one of the many rules the Trump administration has implemented that make it almost impossible for people to be granted asylum. The rule gives extra scrutiny to an asylum seeker’s claim if they passed through another country first, but.
NEW YORK — U.S. federal prosecutors have filed motions saying that Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández took bribes from drug traffickers and had the country’s armed forces protect a cocaine laboratory and shipments to the United States. The documents quote Hernández as saying he wanted to “‘shove the drugs right
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A judge blocked a set of Trump administration asylum rules from going into effect.
U.S. District Judge James Donato in San Francisco on Friday ruled against the administration, saying that acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf lacked the authority to implement the December measures because he has never been confirmed to his position by the Senate. The judge said it was the fifth time a court has ruled against the department for the same reason. The government has recycled exactly the same legal and factual claims made in the prior cases, as if they had not been soundly rejected in well-reasoned opinions by several courts, Donato wrote. This is a troubling litigation strategy. In effect, the government keeps crashing the same car into a gate, hoping that someday it might break through.