The District Court Federal Judge’s ruling WILL be appealed….
But if it IS Upheld by a Appeal’s Court on appeal?
It would overturn a Major means that the Trump Admin has used to mostly ‘shut down’ the US Southern Border.
Listening to the Supreme Court and dealing with the case as presented?…
U.S. District Judge Randolph D. Moss, has passed down his judgement in response to a ‘Class-Action’ lawsuit that lists those effected as ‘most people who would be affected by Trump’s policy’….
The ruling is a legal roadblock for the Trump administration as it pursues an aggressive plan to deport 1 million undocumented immigrants this year. Federal courts have limited some of Trump’s policies — a judge on Wednesday blocked him from terminating temporary protected status for Haitians, for instance — but immigration arrests are up sharply, border crossings are down dramatically and Congress is working through the final stages of a sprawling tax bill that would turbocharge funding for immigration enforcement.
Illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border have been reduced to a trickle, with fewer than 9,000 apprehensions in May, the most recent month available, compared with fewer than 118,000 in May 2024.
Trump officials have celebrated the sharp decline and noted that it is in stark contrast to the average of 2 million apprehensions annually in the first years of the Biden administration as migrants fled pandemic-ravaged economies and authoritarian regimes in nations such as Venezuela.
But advocates for immigrants argued that the Trump administration achieved the lower numbers by overstepping presidential authority and ignoring laws passed by Congress. Federal law stipulates that immigrants on U.S. soil may apply for asylum, even if they crossed the border illegally.
In the lawsuit, lawyers for 13 immigrants from countries including Afghanistan, Cuba and Turkey argued that their clients fled persecution and deserved a chance to apply for protection. Some plaintiffs had already been deported back to their native countries or to an alternative country, including Panama. Moss has not yet ruled on whether the government must bring back the deportees….
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To qualify for asylum protection, migrants must demonstrate a fear of persecution based on their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or another reason that makes them a target in their native country.
Trump’s first term, from 2017 to 2021, also was marked by immigration surges, and he implemented multiple asylum restrictions that were overturned by federal courts. Illegal border crossings declined during the pandemic, but they began to rise again before Trump left office.
After returning to the White House in January, Trump renewed his efforts to curb asylum. He signed a proclamation on his first day called “Guaranteeing the States Protection Against Invasion” and began to reject asylum seekers from the border….
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