A federal judge has blocked a new Trump administration rule that tightens standards by which immigration judges are allowed to grant asylum.
The Thursday order came three days before the amended rule was set to go into effect.
District Judge James Donato of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California took issue with the proposed rule’s “truncated” public comment period of 30 days. He also sided with plaintiffs — immigration advocacy groups — who said Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, lacked the authority to implement the rule.
Wolf has been serving as acting head of homeland security department since November 2019, replacing former acting Secretary Kevin McAleenan.
The Government Accountability Office in August said Wolf wasn’t legally entitled to hold his position because he assumed the job under a succession plan crafted by McAleenan, who himself had no authority to hold his job under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act.
Trump never formally nominated McAleenan to be secretary. Trump formally nominated Wolf for the job later in August.
Donato said his is the fifth court that’s ruled against Wolf’s authority as head of the Cabinet department.
“The government has recycled exactly the same legal and factual claims made in the prior cases, as if they had not been soundly rejected in well-reasoned opinions by several courts,” the judge wrote.
“This is a troubling litigation strategy. In effect, the government keeps crashing the same car into a gate, hoping that someday it might break through.
Trump withdrew his nomination of Wolf on Thursday.
Immigration Equality, one of the plaintiffs in the case, welcomed Donato’s ruling.
“Today’s ruling halts the most sweeping illegal, anti-refugee volley of the Trump administration,” said Bridget Crawford, legal director for the organization. “Asylum is an international human right. LGBTQ and HIV-positive refugees fleeing persecution will always be welcomed in the U.S.”
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Excuse me, but could any sane person not realize that flooding EVERY & ONLY White countries with unlimited numbers of non-Whites and telling everyone to “assimilate” to create a “brown future” is White Genocide?
Africa will still be full of Africans.
Asia will still be full of Asians.
Only White people will suffer from this.
Read the UN Genocide conventions: It is GENOCIDE!
Diversity means the final solution to the White problem.
Theodore Roosevelt’s ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.
“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American … There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag … We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language … and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
Hear that all you “????????-Americans”
Didn’t you know, its “Racist” to say this is white genocide…
Typical of the Judiciary. They are worthless! The Judiciary is complicit in destroying our Country.
No court would even consider/review the evidence regarding the stolen election.
Afraid of the Antifa, BLM and ‘cancel culture’ people.
OR THEY are complicit IN THE STEAL..
Times like this, i’d love Thanos and the infinity gauntlet to be real, so i could SNAP THEM ALL into piles of ash..
the violence is unacceptable narrative from the gop and or conservatives makes me think our republic is
not worth fighting for.
we have fought tyranny at the ballot box and can not win fairly we have lost in the realm of social media we have
lost our universities and schools to the left wing commies who indoctrinate our children.
and now you see the blatent hatred for us on the right by the so called democrat party,they want us all dead they hate us they hate god they hate america and there useful idiots who live on there plantation of free housing,food stamps,welfare and healthcare have put america on a faster track to hell.
Sadly, it is only a matter of a BRIEF amount of time before the USA “joins the club”…
China
Cuba
Venezuela
UG! There is no hope for us once the Dimorats thak over.
Welcome everyone who is HIV positive?!?! Guess we don’t have enough health problems now!