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Houston Chronicle by  Lomi Kriel Feb. 28, 2020

Federal court halts decision to block Trump policy forcing migrants wait in Mexico

A federal court late Friday temporarily halted a significant legal decision earlier in the day that would have blocked one of President Donald Trump’s signature 2019 border policies, in which a panel had found that asylum-seekers must be allowed into the United States while their immigration cases take months to wind through the backlogged American courts.

The Justice Department requested late Friday that the appeals court temporarily put on hold its decision to halt the initiative. The government said it plans to ask the Supreme Court to reinstate the policy, arguing that the sudden pause of the program could “prompt a rush on the southern border by some of the 25,000 or more individuals who are in Mexico under (the Migrant Protection Protocols) and may now seek immediate entry into this country,” the government said in a court filing.

The government must file written arguments by the end of Monday with the plaintiffs responding by Tuesday. It is the latest development in a chaotic turn of events over the White House’s most significant border policy last year.

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