Federal judge blocks Biden limits on asylum for migrants at U.S.-Mx border

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : The Biden administration had argued its rule was needed in anticipation of numerous migrants at the southern border following the end of Title 42.
47% : "The court's ruling is welcome and expected, since the new policy simply rehashed prior rules that restricted access to asylum based on similar grounds, which courts already rejected.
46% : Since the policy was put in place in May, encounters at the southern border have dropped significantly.
43% :Two months ago, the Biden administration implemented a temporary two-year rule as an immigration enforcement tool in preparation for the end of Title 42, a pandemic-era tool used to bar more than 2 million migrants from claiming asylum and instead expel them without an asylum hearing.
43% : U.S. laws protect the rights of people fleeing persecution to come to this country and pursue asylum, full stop," Keren Zwick, director of litigation at the National Immigrant Justice Center, said in a statement.
41% : A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Biden administration's rule that restricts migrants from seeking asylum if they arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border without first seeking protection in another country or applying for an asylum appointment online.
34% : Judge Jon S. Tigar, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, wrote in his decision that the rule violates federal law that allows for anyone on U.S. soil to claim asylum.
32% : Tigar argued that the Trump administration's policy ignored Congress' decision to allow immigrants to apply for asylum.
27% : Tigar wrote that the Biden administration's rule "is contrary to law because it presumes ineligible for asylum noncitizens who enter between ports of entry, using a manner of entry that Congress expressly intended should not affect access to asylum.""The Rule is also contrary to law because it presumes ineligible for asylum noncitizens who fail to apply for protection in a transit country, despite Congress's clear intent that such a factor should only limit access to asylum where the transit country actually presents a safe option," he wrote.
27% : If a migrant did not claim asylum in another country or try to make an appointment through the CBP One mobile app, they would be removed and subjected to a five-year ban from requesting asylum and would be ineligible to apply for other parole programs available to nationals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

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