New U.S. rules limiting asylum claims at Mexican border blocked by judge
The federal judge delayed his ruling from taking effect immediately to give the U.S. Justice Department time to appeal, and the agency immediately did so.
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The federal judge delayed his ruling from taking effect immediately to give the U.S. Justice Department time to appeal, and the agency immediately did so.
A federal judge struck down on Tuesday a stringent new asylum policy that the Biden administration has called crucial to its efforts to curb illegal crossings along the US-Mexico border.
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked President Joe Biden's new regulation restricting asylum access at the U.S.-Mexico border, upending a key tenet of his plan to deter migration after COVID-era Title 42 restrictions ended in May.
The judge's order takes away a key enforcement tool set in place by the Biden administration as coronavirus-based restrictions on asylum expired in May.
U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar of the Northern District of California on Tuesday delayed his ruling from taking effect immediately to give President Joe Biden’s administration time to appeal.