🚨 JUST IN: Judge strikes down Trump order preventing asylum requests, protections for illegal immigrants – Fox News
A federal judge on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order that sought to prevent migrants who cross the border from seeking asylum or applying for withholding of removal in the U.S., ruling that the order exceeds the president’s executive authority.
U.S. District Judge Randolph Daniel Moss, an Obama appointee, said Wednesday that the order exceeds Trump’s authority to suspend legal protections for migrants crossing the border into the U.S. illegally, stressing that neither the Immigration and Nationality Act, nor the Constitution, grants the executive branch authority to “replace the comprehensive rules and procedures set forth in the INA and the governing regulations,” including the right to seek asylum or apply for the withholding of removal.
“The Court recognizes that the Executive Branch faces enormous challenges in preventing and deterring unlawful entry into the United States and in adjudicating the overwhelming backlog of asylum claims of those who have entered the country,” Moss said in his order.
