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Immigration

Dec. 20, 2018

Trump asylum policy gets two judicial rebukes

Judges on opposite coasts, one in the Northern District of California and the other in the District of Columbia, appear poised to upend the Trump administration’s attempt to crackdown on asylum seekers at the country’s southern border.

Trump asylum policy gets two judicial rebukes
U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar of San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO -- Judges on opposite coasts, one in the Northern District of California and the other in the District of Columbia, appear poised to upend the Trump administration's attempt to crackdown on asylum seekers at the country's southern border.

The administration is likely hoping to take both cases to the U.S. Supreme Court after a setback in Washington Tuesday over who qualifies for asylum and another district court defeat a...

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