Trump administration asks top court to restore asylum order

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(Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to let his order barring asylum for immigrants who enter the United States illegally take effect even as litigation over the matter proceeds.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-asylum/trump-administration-asks-top-court-to-restore-asylum-order-idUSKBN1OA2MN

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Trump administration files Supreme Court appeal after Ninth Circuit ruling halting new asylum policy

By Gregg Re | Fox News

The Trump administration on Tuesday formally asked the Supreme Court in an emergency appeal to block a nationwide ban on the administration's new asylum policy that was unilaterally instituted by a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals judge last month.

In a November news conference days before the midterm elections, Trump had vowed to turn away all asylum seekers who attempt to cross the border illegally instead of properly presenting themselves at ports of entry.

The president, who has long said the asylum process is rife with fraud, said the emergency policy was necessary as the leading Central American migrant caravan approached the U.S. border with Mexico.

However, U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar, who was nominated by President Obama in 2012 to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, issued a temporary restraining order two weeks later that brought a halt to the plan.

Last week, a separate federal appeals court in San Francisco said the White House's ban was inconsistent with federal law and represented an attempted end-run around Congress.

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http://www.scotusblog.com/2018/12/government-asks-justices-to-intervene-on-asylum-ban/

SCOTUSblog by Amy Howe Posted Tue, December 11th, 2018 7:16 pm

Government asks justices to intervene on asylum ban

Last month President Donald Trump blasted a ruling by a federal judge in San Francisco that blocked the government from enforcing a rule that would prohibit immigrants who enter the country illegally from requesting asylum. Trump criticized U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar, who issued the order, as an “Obama judge” and predicted that the government would “win that case in the Supreme Court of the United States.” Trump’s comments elicited a rare public rebuke from Chief Justice John Roberts, and today the federal government went to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to put Tigar’s order on hold while it appeals the ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit – and, if necessary, the Supreme Court.

Today’s filing, by U.S. solicitor general Noel Francisco, complained that Tigar’s ruling was “deeply flawed.” Emphasizing that the Trump administration had adopted the rule “to address an ongoing crisis at the southern border,” Francisco argued that the lawsuit should not go forward at all: The fact that immigration groups challenging the rule might lose funding as a result of the rule does not, he says, give them a legal right to sue.

http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181211150154377_East-Bay-Sanctuary-S.-Ct.-Stay-Application-Final.pdf