A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the administration of President Donald Trump to stop implementing a proclamation to expel asylum seekers at the border that he had signed shortly after beginning his second term.
July 2 A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the administration of President Donald Trump to stop implementing a proclamation to expel asylum seekers at the border that he had signed shortly after beginning his second term.
Trump had signed the proclamation, titled „Guaranteeing the States Protection Against Invasion“, on January 20, his first day in office. It invoked emergency presidential powers to expel migrants before allowing them to apply for asylum. A coalition of immigrants and immigrant rights groups then sued the administration in February.
U.S. District Court Judge Randolph Moss has now granted the plaintiffs a partial summary judgment, finding that Trump’s proclamation and implementation guidance from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem violated the Immigration and Nationality Act and the Administrative Procedure Act.
In his proclamation, Trump had said that the screenings of asylum seekers under the INA — enacted by Congress — can be „wholly ineffective“ but that the law grants the president „certain emergency tools“ if he were to find that the entry of any class of immigrants would be detrimental to the interests of the United States.
