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A federal judge has blocked the Biden administration's asylum rule for migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. In his ruling on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar in Oakland, California, deemed the rules unlawful, saying they imposed conditions on asylum-seekers that Congress didn't intend. “The ruling is a victory, but each day the Biden administration prolongs…

The ruling was a response to a legal challenge filed by the American Civil Liberties Union against Joe Biden's immigration policy.

The Biden administration expressed a federal judge's ruling striking down the Biden administration's asylum policy that established a "rebuttable presumption" of asylum ineligibility. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said he disagreed with the court's ruling. "It does not limit our ability to deliver consequences for unlawful entry," he said.

Joe Biden, a Democrat, took office in 2021 pledging to reverse many of the hardline policies of former President Donald Trump, a Republican, but has adopted some Trump-like border measures as record numbers of migrants have been caught crossing illegally.

The ruling against the Biden administration could have major implications on the US-Mexico border.