SAN DIEGO – U. S. District Court Judge Cynthia Ann Bashant issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) Monday, blocking the Trump administration’s latest attempt to prevent asylum seekers from accessing the U.S.
asylum process. The order blocks a rule, issued in December and set to take effect on January 19, that sought to circumvent an earlier court order prohibiting the government from applying an asylum ban to certain people forced to wait in Mexico because U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) artificially limited the number of asylum seekers who could enter the United States at ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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