A judge blocks limits on asylum at border but gives Biden time to appeal

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Migrants use the app to schedule an appointment to present themselves at the border to seek entry to the U.S. and request asylum.
50% : According to Customs and Border Protection, total encounters along the southern border -- meaning migrants who either came to one of the ports of entry or tried to cross between them -- were down 30% in June compared with the previous month.
46% : The ACLU and other groups had argued the rule violates a U.S. law that protects the right to asylum regardless of how a person enters the country.
44% : A federal judge on Tuesday blocked a rule that allows immigration authorities to deny asylum to migrants who arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border without first applying online or seeking protection in a country they passed through.
44% : The order from U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar of the Northern District of California takes away a key enforcement tool set in place by the Biden administration as coronavirus-based restrictions on asylum expired in May.
43% : Critics say the rule endangers migrants trying to cross the southern border and is against the law, while the administration argues that it encourages migrants to use lawful pathways into the country and prevents chaos at the border.
43% : The new rule imposes severe limitations on migrants seeking asylum but includes room for exceptions and does not apply to children traveling alone.
42% : But, Tigar wrote, Congress expressly said that should not affect whether someone is eligible for asylum.
41% : Critics have argued that the rule is essentially a newer version of efforts by President Donald Trump to limit asylum at the southern border.
37% : Tigar also ruled against the Trump administration's efforts to limit asylum to people who don't apply for protection in a country they travel through before coming to the U.S.
36% : He also wrote that the rule is illegal because it presumes that people are ineligible for asylum if they enter the country between legal border crossings.
18% : "While they wait for an adjudication, applicants for asylum must remain in Mexico, where migrants are generally at heightened risk of violence by both state and non-state actors," the judge, an appointee of President Barack Obama who , wrote.
16% : Trump derided Tigar as an "Obama judge" after Tigar rejected a Trump administration policy barring people from applying for asylum except at an official border entry point.

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