If there’s been one one constant during the first two years of Trump’s presidency, other than media attacks, it’s been the courts halting his plans for….well whatever.
Today a federal district court in San Francisco blocked another Trump policy, this one being the plan to send some asylums seekers back into Mexico while they await their court date.
Here’s more:
REUTERS – A U.S. judge on Monday issued an injunction halting the Trump administration’s policy of sending some asylum seekers back across the southern border to wait out their cases in Mexico.
The ruling is slated to take effect on Friday, according to the order by U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco. The injunction will apply nationwide.
The ruling removes at least temporarily a controversial Trump administration strategy aimed at slowing a flood of immigrants, mostly from Central America, that swelled last month to the highest level in a decade.
Because of limits on how long children are legally allowed to be held in detention, many of the families are released to await U.S. immigration court hearings, a process that can take years because of ballooning backlogs. In response, the Trump administration in January started sending some migrants to wait out their U.S. court dates in Mexican border cities.
The Department of Homeland Security said last week that it planned to expand the program..
Wouldn’t ya know it, Seeborg is an Obama pick.
I guess he wants all of these illegals invading America and not Mexico. How nice.
Truthfully I haven’t seen the actual ruling so I don’t know Seeborg’s rationale. But at this point I’d be willing to bet it’s not a very good rationale.
UPDATE:
Daniel Horowitz links to the ruling here, noting that the judge issues the injunction knowing full well it’s an abuse of his power:
Once again, a judge admits a universal injunction is a violation of judicial power but issues one anyway. https://t.co/In0uOv5Hxg Thus, it should be treated as invalid.
— Daniel Horowitz (@RMConservative) April 8, 2019