Thread: Federal Judge Ruling Will Allow Some Of the Over 20,000 People Seeking Asylum Into US

Federal Judge Ruling Will Allow Some Of the Over 8,000 People Seeking Asylum In Tijuana Into The United States

Ruling turns over July decision by the Trump Administration

By Evan Symon, November 21, 2019 6:05 am
21 Nov 2019 6:05 am


Many of the over 8,000 people waiting at the Tijuana-San Ysidro border may now be given asylum according to a ruling on Tuesday.

In July the Trump Administration put an asylum ban into effect, denying people seeking asylum who had traveled through another country if they hadn’t registered in any of the countries they had gone through to get to the border.

On Tuesday U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant ruled in favor of those seeking asylum that the ban does not apply to anyone who appeared at a U.S. border crossing before the Trump Administrations announcement in July.

U.S. District Court Judge Cynthia Ann Bashant. (Ballotpedia)“The asylum seekers understood their access to asylum in the United States to be premised on their willingness to wait in Mexico,” said Judge Bashant in her ruling. “In reliance on this representation by the U.S. Government, they did so. The Government, in a shift that can be considered, at best, misleading, and at worst, duplicitous, now seeks to change course.”

The ruling will affect over 20,000 migrants mostly from Central American countries waiting at border stations across from California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.

At the Tijuana border station alone, nearly 9,000 migrants requesting asylum are affected.

Those in support of those wanting asylum in the United States noted that the U.S. government itself had recommended that asylum seekers apply and wait to get in legally rather than illegally go across the border. The U.S. government argued in favor of the administration. Many in support of the administration have argued since July that those people who had not applied in other countries had through by illegal means, such as hiring a border crossing guide known as a ‘coyote’.

Tuesday’s decision at the Edward J. Schwartz U.S. Courthouse in San Diego did not resolve surrounding issues of asylum seekers, such as issues with illegal ways some migrants choose to reach the border by, and the U.S. not having adequate facilities to process migrants coming up, creating a backlog of nearly half a year.

“This only allows a certain group of immigrants who got here before July 16th to not have that restriction against them,” noted San Diego Immigration lawyer Javier Diaz. “This isn’t opening the borders or anything like that. Only some will not need to go back to other countries to claim asylum in first. And this is still a huge roadblock. But a few who got here and tried to get in before mid-July should be processed normally for asylum.

It’s far from a great system, but it was a small win for some of these people who struggled and gave up everything for even the chance to get in here.”

The Trump administration has not indicated whether they will challenge the ruling.

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Right. And do they have to provide *proof* that they got there before that date, or is their word acceptable?

Originally Posted by Captainron

Right. And do they have to provide *proof* that they got there before that date, or is their word acceptable?

They can tell by the date they signed the list in Tijuana.

More info @

7/10/2019

"About 9,150 names are pending on the list, according to data documented by volunteers with Al Otro Lado, a legal services nonprofit that supports migrants in Tijuana. The people to whom those names belong have been waiting upwards of three months in many cases for their turn to ask the U.S. for protection at the San Ysidro Port of Entry."

@ Tijuana asylum line reaches highest count on record as migrants protest long waits

Like they cannot LIE some more and create their own made up lists.

Keep them out.


AMNESTY or a path to stay should not apply to DACA or the Farm Bill Amnesty for those who have been in this country illegally for the last 30 years either! Send them back!

Follow THOSE existing laws on the books that THEY fall under and start deporting! They are here illegally, DACA is illegal and so are those Farm Workers.


So the swamp can make up laws and retroactively to KEEP 30,000,000 illegals here but we cannot keep out the 8,000 becuase of Trumps new rules. They are full of it!


ONE DACA DEPORTED FOR ONE ASYLUM SEEKER ON THE LIST...

DO A ONE ON ONE SWAP!!!


Where is the JUDGE to rule that!!!

We are forced to take 8,000 on a "list" and keep 1,000,000 DACA their DAPA parents, their thousands of anchor babies and the 30,000,000 others who are not here legally and violeted our existing laws...I call bullcrap on that!

OUR LAWS HAVE NO MEANING IN THIS COUNTRY AND ONLY APPLY TO LEGAL AMERCIAN'S WHO BREAK THEM! THERE YOU HAVE IT!!!


WHAT A JOKE AND SLAP IN THE FACE TO THOSE WHO COME LEGALLY.