Judge blocks Biden administration's policy limiting asylum for migrants but delays enforcement - WTOP News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : The new rule imposed severe limitations on migrants seeking asylum.
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.
42% :Immigrant rights groups that sued argued it was a violation of U.S. law that protects the right to asylum regardless of how a person enters the country.
39% : Critics have argued that the rule is essentially a newer version of two efforts by President Donald Trump to limit asylum at the southern border.
37% : The Supreme Court eventually allowed the Trump administration to limit asylum for people who don't apply for protection in a country they travel through before coming to the U.S. to go into effect.
32% : But another Trump effort to bar people from applying for asylum except at an official border entry point was caught up in litigation and never took effect.

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