A federal judge in San Francisco has re-upped his prior ruling blocking the Trump administration’s changes to rules barring migrants entering outside designated ports of entry along the U.S. via the Mexico border from applying for asylum.

U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar on Wednesday issued a preliminary injunction preventing the regulation from going into effect, finding that it “was inconsistent with the will of Congress as expressed in the United States’ immigration statutes.”

This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.

To view this content, please continue to their sites.

Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Why am I seeing this?

LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM's legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information.

For questions call 1-877-256-2472 or contact us at [email protected]