Thread: Return of Trump’s asylum policy blocked by 9th Circuit court

Return of Trump’s asylum policy blocked by 9th Circuit court

By Dom Calicchio | Fox News
Published 7 hours ago
Last Update 6 hours ago

The Trump administration’s bid to immediately reinstate its policy of denying asylum to those who enter the U.S. illegally was denied Friday by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The San Francisco-based court stated in a 2-1 ruling that the policy was likely “inconsistent” with existing law.

It marked the latest setback for the Trump administration in a court that President Trump blasted last month as “a disgrace” because of a series of rulings against his policies.

“Because you cannot win, if you're us, a case in the Ninth Circuit," Trump told reporters outside the White House on Nov. 20. “Every case gets filed in the Ninth Circuit ... we get beaten, and then we end up having to go to the Supreme Court.”

In Friday’s ruling, the 9th Circuit described the Trump administration’s attempt to restore the asylum policy as an effort to bypass Congress.

“Just as we may not, as we are often reminded, ‘legislate from the bench,’ neither may the Executive legislate from the Oval Office," 9th Circuit Judge Jay Bybee wrote in the majority opinion. Bybee was nominated to his seat by former President George W. Bush.

“Just as we may not, as we are often reminded, ‘legislate from the bench,’ neither may the Executive legislate from the Oval Office."
— Judge Jay Bybee, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

At issue was Trump’s Nov. 9 move to bar anyone who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border between official ports of entry from seeking asylum. Trump issued the proclamation as migrant caravans traveled closer to the U.S. through Mexico.

But a lower court judge temporarily blocked the ban and later refused to reinstate it. The administration appealed to the 9th Circuit for a stay of Judge Jon Tigar's Nov. 19 order.

In a dissenting opinion Friday, 9th Circuit Judge Edward Leavy, who was nominated by President Ronald Reagan, said the administration "adopted legal methods to cope with the current problems rampant at the southern border.”

In his Nov, 19 ruling, Tigar sided with legal groups who argued that federal law is clear that immigrants in the U.S. can request asylum regardless of whether they entered legally.

The ruling led to a public dispute between Trump and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts after Trump dismissed Tigar as an "Obama judge."

Roberts responded that the federal judiciary doesn't have "Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges."

Fox News’ Gregg Re and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ret...-court-reports

I accidentally posted this in "Other" when I meant to post it in Illegal Immigration news, could someone move it for me? Thank you.

These people do not qualify for asylum.

They need to be rounded up, put in Federal Tent City on Federal Land with a panel of Federal Judges.

Mandatory that employers serve time in jail: 1st offense 30 days and a fine; 2nd offense 60 days and a fine; 3rd offense 12 months and lose your business license!

Herd them through the line, DENY their claims, usher them out the back door to waiting buses.

Bus Mexicans to Mexico

Bus Central Americans to barges in San Diego and let the Navy and Coast Guard ship thousands back!

THE WHOLE FAMILY GOES INCLUDING UAC'S.