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As I explained here, the Biden administration recently adopted a new immigration policy which limited asylum claims from people who cross the border illegally and who can’t show they filed for asylum in any other countries along the route to the US border. That policy that far fewer migrants were able to gain entry to the Untied States by claiming asylum after crossing the border illegally.
The number of single-adult migrants who are able to pass initial screenings at the border has dropped from 83% to 46% under the new policy, the Biden administration said in the court filing. The 83% rate refers to initial asylum screenings between 2014 and 2019; the new data cover the period from May 12, the first full day the new policy was in place, through June 13.
This was a much needed change after the expiration of Title 42 and gave the border patrol some ability to send people home rather than simply welcome then in for the seven year process of seeing an immigration judge, a process that all but ensures they’ll be allowed to stay in the US regardless of what the immigration court ultimately decides.
Today a federal judge in northern California ruled that the Biden administration’s immigration policy is invalid, though he gave the administration two weeks to appeal.
The Biden administration was dealt a major blow in its efforts to control the ongoing border crisis on Tuesday when a federal judge blocked a rule introduced in May that makes migrants ineligible for asylum if they have entered illegally and failed to take advantage of expanded lawful pathways set up by the federal government.
Judge Jon Tigar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California blocked the Circumvention of Lawful Pathways rule in response to a lawsuit from a coalition of left-wing immigration groups, which claimed the rule was similar to a Trump-era transit ban that was similarly blocked. He found the rule is “both substantively and procedurally invalid” and has delayed his ruling from taking effect for 14 days to give the administration time to appeal…
The rule had angered left-wing immigration activist groups, which said it was cruel and limited the ability of foreign nationals to claim asylum in the U.
