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New US Asylum Restrictions Survive First Court Challenge

Aline Barros

   The Trump administration's new asylum rule survived an initial court
   challenge Wednesday, keeping in place a directive that disqualifies a
   significant proportion of mostly Central American asylum-seekers who
   reach the U.S.-Mexico border.

   U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly denied requests to block the rule
   while a pending court case goes forward, saying, "It's in the greater
   public interest to allow the administration to carry out its
   immigration policy."

   Announced earlier this month, the new rule bars asylum for migrants who
   reach the U.S. southern border without having applied for and been
   denied asylum in any country they passed through on their way to the
   United States.

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