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Immigration,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Oct. 24, 2024

Divided panel says asylum seekers can't be turned away at border

The panel ruled that a federal judge in San Diego was correct when she enjoined the government from requiring people traveling through a third country to apply for asylum there instead of in the United States.

A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel, divided along partisan lines, affirmed a lower court judge's preliminary injunction that found a since-revoked metering policy, which turned asylum seekers away at the U.S.-Mexico border, violated the Administrative Procedure Act.

The panel also ruled that U.S. District Judge Cynthia A. Bashant in San Diego was correct when she enjoined the government from applying the Asylum Transit Rule, a blocked Trump administration policy which r...

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