Immigration attorney Jodi Goodwin, center, talks to Nicaraguan asylum seekers while they wait for Customs and Border Protection agents to bring a wheelchair for one of them, on the U.S. side of the international bridge in Hidalgo on Sept. 15, 2018.
--Verónica G. Cárdenas for The Texas Tribune
Federal judge blocks Trump’s asylum ban for migrants who enter illegally from Mexico
A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from denying asylum to migrants who illegally cross the southern border into the United States, saying the policy likely violated federal law on asylum eligibility.
In a ruling late Monday, Jon S. Tigar of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco issued a temporary nationwide restraining order barring enforcement of the policy. President Donald Trump’s action was announced on Nov. 9, though the White House had as early as last month floated drastic changes to the way the United States affords sanctuary to people fleeing persecution in their home countries.
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