{"id":210,"date":"2026-04-24T18:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2026-04-24T18:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:46:18","slug":"appeals-court-says-trumps-asylum-ban-at-the-border-is-illegal-agreeing-with-lower-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"Appeals court says Trump&#8217;s asylum ban at the border is illegal, agreeing with lower court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB  \">WASHINGTON &#8212; <\/span>An appeals court on Friday <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/28071721\/refugees.pdf\">blocked<\/a> President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order suspending asylum access, a key pillar of the Republican president\u2019s plan to crack down on migration at the southern border of the U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found that immigration laws give people the right to apply for <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/immigration-asylum-lawsuit-trump-border-aclu-af374b821fb3872078beb5a495e01d8e\">asylum at the border<\/a>, and the president can\u2019t circumvent that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The court opinion stems from action taken by Trump on Inauguration Day 2025 when he declared that the situation at the southern border constituted an invasion of America and that he was \u201csuspending the physical entry\u201d of migrants and their ability to seek asylum until he decides it is over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The panel concluded that the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/immigration-asylum-lawsuit-trump-border-aclu-cb1b4cdf84911e765f02be5dc5ac1b2e\">Immigration and Nationality Act doesn\u2019t authorize the president<\/a> to remove the plaintiffs under \u201cprocedures of his own making,\u201d allow him to suspend plaintiffs\u2019 right to apply for asylum or curtail procedures for adjudicating their anti-torture claims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cThe power by proclamation to temporarily suspend the entry of specified foreign individuals into the United States does not contain implicit authority to override the INA\u2019s mandatory process to summarily remove foreign individuals,\u201d wrote Judge J. Michelle Childs, who was nominated to the bench by Democratic President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cWe conclude that the INA\u2019s text, structure, and history make clear that in supplying power to suspend entry by Presidential proclamation, Congress did not intend to grant the Executive the expansive removal authority it asserts,\u201d the opinion said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The administration can ask the full appeals court to reconsider the ruling or go to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The order doesn\u2019t formally take effect until after the court considers any request to reconsider.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said she had not seen the ruling but \u201cit\u2019s unsurprising to me. We have liberal judges across the country who are acting against this president for political purposes. They are not acting as true litigators of the law. They are looking at these cases from a political lens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"> Leavitt, speaking at a press gaggle outside the White House, said Trump was taking actions that are \u201ccompletely within his powers as commander in chief.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">She added that the judges should be thanking the president for stopping what she called a \u201cscam\u201d allowed during the Biden administration which let \u201ctens of millions of illegal aliens\u201d into the country by allowing them to \u201cfraudulently\u201d claim asylum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"> The Department of Homeland Security didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt said in a statement that the appellate ruling is \u201cessential for those fleeing danger who have been denied even a hearing to present asylum claims under the Trump administration\u2019s unlawful and inhumane executive order.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"> Judge Justin Walker, a Trump nominee, wrote a partial dissent. He said the law gives immigrants protections against removal to countries where they would be persecuted, but the administration can issue broad denials of asylum applications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Walker, however, agreed with the majority that the president cannot deport migrants to countries where they will be persecuted or strip them of mandatory procedures that protect against their removal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Judge Cornelia Pillard, who was nominated by Democratic President Barack Obama, also heard the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In the executive order, Trump argued that the Immigration and Nationality Act gives presidents the authority to suspend entry of any group that they finds \u201cdetrimental to the interests of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The executive order also suspended the ability of migrants to ask for asylum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">AP reporters Gary Fields, in Washington, and Gisela Salomon, in Miami, contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/wireStory\/appeals-court-trumps-asylum-ban-border-illegal-agreeing-132354929\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; An appeals court on Friday blocked President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order suspending asylum access, a key pillar of the Republican president\u2019s plan to crack down on migration at the southern border of the U.S. A three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found that immigration laws [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}