Judge Rejects the Biden Administration’s Asylum Restrictions Along the U.S.-Mexico Border

A federal judge in California on Tuesday ruled against the Biden administration’s recently implemented restrictions on asylum along the U.S.-Mexico border, saying a policy that officials have partially credited for a sharp drop in migrant crossings violates the country’s legal obligations to those fleeing violence.

U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar in Oakland concluded that the regulation violates U.S. asylum law, which since 1980 has allowed migrants on American soil to request humanitarian protection as a way to halt the government’s efforts to deport them, regardless of how they entered the country.

Tigar blocked a similar, though more restrictive, Trump administration effort to bar asylum claims along the southern border. That lawsuit was also filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, which has said the Biden policy endangers refugees.

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