An appeals court ruled on Friday that President Donald Trump’s Day One executive order restricting asylum access at the southern border is illegal.
A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit determined that immigrants have the right to request asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border under federal law and that the Immigration and Nationality Act can’t be invoked to suspend that right.
The federal appeals court also concluded that Trump cannot deport immigrants to countries where they will be persecuted or strip them of their protections against removal from the United States.
“The power by proclamation to temporarily suspend the entry of specified foreign individuals into the United States does not contain implicit authority to override the INA’s mandatory process to summarily remove foreign individuals,” Judge J. Michelle Childs wrote in the ruling.
Childs was appointed to the bench by former President Joe Biden. Trump and
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