TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Paul Burch on Nov 9, 2023

A lawyer for the Biden administration told an appeals court Tuesday that a California-based federal judge was wrong in July to block a rule imposing new restrictions on asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border, reports Reuters. The regulation presumes most migrants are not eligible to apply for asylum if they pass through other nations without seeking protection there first, or if they cross the border illegally instead of arriving at a designated port of entry. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard the government's appeal, which argued the rule is valid since it includes various exceptions to rebut the presumption that these migrants are ineligible for protection.