A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order, deeming the situation at the southern border an invasion, and suspended asylum access.
U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss in Washington D.C. said his order blocking the policy will take effect on July 16, giving the Trump administration time to appeal.
Moss wrote that the Constitution or immigration law does not permit Trump “an extra-statutory, extra-regulatory regime for repatriating or removing individuals from the United States, without an opportunity to apply for asylum” or other protections.
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Moss, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, acknowledged the administration’s “enormous challenges” at the southern border and an “overwhelming backlog” of asylum claims. But he repeated that the president isn’t authorized to prohibit asylum.
“Nothing in the INA or the Constitution grants the President … the sweeping authority asserted
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