Trump admin to appeal ‘Obama judge’ ruling that halted president’s new asylum policy

(National Sentinel)Â Round 2:Â The Trump administration will appeal a ruling by what POTUS called an “Obama judge” earlier this month who blocked an executive order altering asylum rules as thousands of ‘caravan migrants’ press hard to enter the country.

The Justice Department s planning on filing a motion Tuesday evening in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals requesting that U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar’s order be suspended, theÂ Washington Examiner reported. Lawyers for the Department of Homeland Security have also filed a request to stay the order.

The order requires asylum seekers to apply at border checkpoints. Currently, even migrants who cross into the U.S. illegally can ask the first border agent they encounter for asylum after they are inside the country. The new order would require them to turn around and go through one of the 48 established ports of entry/border checkpoints.

Typically, once migrants make it into the U.S. they are given asylum hearing dates but then disappear into the interior, with most never showing up for their hearing.

The president is attempting to plug that gaping immigration policy hole as thousands of mostly Central American migrants — and largely males of military age — congregate near the U.S. border in Tijuana.

The initial lawsuit over the asylum policy was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Southern Poverty Law Center, theÂ Washington Examiner reported.

“And it is absurd that a set of advocacy groups can be found to have standing to sue to stop the entire federal government from acting so that illegal aliens can receive a government benefit to which they are not entitled,” the DOJ and Homeland Security Department said in a joint statement following Tigar’s injunction.



