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Thursday 12 sepTember 2019

Supreme Court allows broad enforcement of asylum limits

By MARK SHERMAN Court WIN for the Border on 9th Circuit. That left the ad-
Associated Press Asylum!” Trump tweeted. ministration free to enforce
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justices Ruth Bader Gins- the policy on asylum seek-
Supreme Court is allowing burg and Sonia Sotomayor ers arriving in New Mexico
nationwide enforcement dissented from the high- and Texas. Tigar issued a
of a new Trump administra- court’s order. “Once again, new order on Monday that
tion rule that prevents most the Executive Branch has reimposed a nationwide
Central American immi- issued a rule that seeks to hold on asylum policy. The
grants from seeking asylum upend longstanding prac- 9th Circuit again narrowed
in the United States. tices regarding refugees his order on Tuesday.
The justices’ order late who seek shelter from The high-court action al-
Wednesday temporarily persecution,” Sotomayor lows the administration to
undoes a lower-court rul- wrote. impose the new policy ev-
ing that had blocked the The legal challenge to the erywhere while the court
new asylum policy in some new policy has a brief but case against it continues.
states along the southern In this Oct. 10, 2017, file photo, the Supreme Court in Washington somewhat convoluted his- Lee Gelernt, the American
border. The policy is meant is seen at sunset. tory. U.S. District Judge Civil Liberties Union lawyer
to deny asylum to anyone Associated Press Jon Tigar in San Francisco who is representing immi-
who passes through an- are largely ineligible under tration has said that it wants blocked the new policy grant advocacy groups in
other country on the way the new rule, as are asylum to close the gap between from taking effect in late the case, said:
to the U.S. without seeking seekers from Africa, Asia an initial asylum screening July. A three-judge panel of “This is just a temporary
protection there. and South America who ar- that most people pass and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of step, and we’re hopeful
Most people crossing the rive regularly at the south- a final decision on asylum Appeals narrowed Tigar’s we’ll prevail at the end of
southern border are Cen- ern border. that most people do not order so that it applied only the day. The lives of thou-
tral Americans fleeing vio- The shift reverses decades win. in Arizona and California, sands of families are at
lence and poverty. They of U.S. policy. The adminis- “BIG United States Supreme states that are within the stake.”q