Trump administration asks court for green light to enforce new restrictions on asylum

[riversedge]

Source: nbc





Government lawyers said a judge's ruling temporarily blocking the restrictions undermined efforts to encourage the people in the caravans transiting Mexico to follow U.S. law.


Nov. 27, 2018 / 5:36 PM CST


By Pete Williams

The Justice Department late Tuesday asked a federal judge in San Francisco to lift an order of his that blocks the Trump administration from enforcing tough new restrictions on asylum.

And if the judge doesn't act by Wednesday, the government said, it will ask the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to block the judge's order.

In its court filing, government lawyers said the judge undermined the president's efforts to encourage the people in the caravans transiting Mexico to follow U.S. law. Instead, the government said, the migrants, "rather than properly presenting themselves at a border port of entry, violate our criminal law and endanger themselves by crossing illegally into the country, as events have amply demonstrated."


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An immigrant rights group immediately sued, and on November 19 Federal District Court Judge Jon S. Tigar ordered the administration to stop enforcing the new rules. He said President Trump's order violated existing federal law that requires the government to consider asylum requests from anyone who manages to get inside the US, no matter how an immigrant arrived. "He may not rewrite the immigration laws to impose a condition that Congress has expressly forbidden," Tigar wrote.

President Trump criticized Tigar's ruling, saying it came from "an Obama judge." ................................................

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-administration-asks-court-green-light-enforce-new-restrictions-asylum-n940911

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So, Trumpy is giving this judge a day to change his mind. pushy little man!





Marie Orellana, 28, and her seven-year-old son Angel, from Honduras, part of a caravan of thousands of migrants from Central America trying to reach the United States, queue for food outside a temporary shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, Nov. 25, 2018.Lucy Nicholson / Reuters

[MiniMe]

1. I find it interesting that they will go to the 9th circuit court after he spent the last week

bashing them

[iluvtennis]

2. Judge ruling was that Trump's order violates federal law. Wouldn't expect the Appeals court to

overturn it.

[MarkHambrick]

3. We need to be careful of the Arguments that DOJ use to overturn the ruling

Several Courts have used Trump's campaign speeches to show that his desire for a Muslim travel ban is based on bigotry, and not safety concerns, could be used AGAINST the 9th district Courts. It could be argued that because a portion of the Asylum Seekers do not show up for court hearings, that there is enough evidence available to prevent the Asylum seekers from entering the country, Until they have a hearing. The 9th district may not buy this argument, but I think the Supreme Court will.

[riversedge]

4. Thanks for post. Interesting thoughts.