Judge annuls Trump’s decree that vetoes the asylum application
In the federal district of Northern California, Jon Tigar blocked the presidential order that prevented a foreigner from applying for asylum when he had passed through a third country
The federal district judge of the Northern District of California, Jon Tigar, has canceled on Monday a presidential decree of Donald Trump that would veto the process of applying for asylum to any foreigner who has passed through a third country on his way to the United States.
On July 15, Tigar himself ordered the suspension of the rule on the grounds that it is “inconsistent with existing asylum laws” that have been promulgated by Congress.
However, the White House has appealed the suspension before the Supreme Court and has succeeded in having a lower instance limit its application to the border states of California and Arizona.
Now Tigar applies the suspension at the federal level because this “breadth is necessary to remedy the damage to the plaintiffs.” The federal suspension of the regulations will be effective until the legality of the measure is elucidated, probably in the Supreme Court.
Presidential regulations only contemplated as an exception the victims of trafficking and foreigners who had already been denied asylum in the countries they had passed through. This mainly affects thousands of Central Americans who cross through Mexico each month to try to enter the United States.
K. Tovar
Source: Milenio
