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US Judge Blocks Trump Asylum Ban at US-Mexico Border, Says Trump Exceeded Authority
On Wednesday, US District Judge Randolph Moss blocked Trump’s border asylum ban for overstepping authority.
The Trump administration's attempt to suspend border asylum claims prompted a legal challenge, as the court found no statutory or constitutional authority for such sweeping executive power.
Evidence shows Judge Moss found neither the Constitution nor immigration laws grant the president authority to deny asylum, while advocates warn the policy endangers thousands seeking refuge.
Following Judge Moss's 14-day stay, the administration plans to appeal, while June border encounters exceeded 6,000, highlighting policy relevance.
In an order issued Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss found that the Trump administration overstepped its authority and bypassed immigration law.
The president cannot “adopt an alternative immigration system, which supplants the statutes that Congress has enacted,” Moss wrote in the order.
“Although enjoining the President from exercising an exclusive constitutional prerogative might, standing alone, give rise to irreparable injury, requiring the Agency Defendants to comply with the law as Congress enacted pursuant to its power over immigration laws”, Moss said.
The judge said he would stay the effective date of his order for 14 days to allow the Trump administration to appeal.
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Moss’s decision was criticized by Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller in a post on social media platform X soon after it was handed down.
Miller said the order is an attempt to supersede last week’s Supreme Court ruling on nationwide injunctions in a separate case.
“To try to circumvent the Supreme Court ruling on nationwide injunctions a Marxist judge has declared that all potential FUTURE illegal aliens on foreign soil (eg a large portion of planet earth) are part of a protected global “class“ entitled to admission into the United States,” Miller wrote.