Judge blocks limits on asylum at U.S.-Mexico border but Biden administration can 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% : 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.
40% : Critics have argued that the rule is essentially a newer version of efforts by former 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.
17% : "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 former President Barack Obama, 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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