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Federal Appeals Court (9th Circuit) Blocks Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy
National Review ^ | February 28, 2020 | Zachary Evans

Posted on 02/28/2020 10:48:02 AM PST by karpov

A federal appeals court has blocked the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy that requires asylum seekers who attempt to cross the U.S.-Mexico border to wait in Mexico while their cases are processed in the U.S.

The unanimous ruling from a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stated the policy conflicted with U.S. immigration law. The court blocked the Remain in Mexico policy, originally known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, across the entire U.S.-Mexico border.

Around 59,000 people are currently a part of the program, Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan said on Thursday.

Top immigration officials in the Trump administration, including Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan and Acting Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli, have defended the Remain in Mexico program as a effective way to eliminate the “catch and release” statuts quo, in which migrants were released back into the U.S. after being apprehended and instructed to return for their asylum hearing months or, in some cases, years later. Officials have also said the policy works as a deterrent to illegal immigration.

However, in the court’s decision Judge William Fletcher criticized the policy as putting migrants’ well-being in danger.

“[The Migrant Protection Protocols have] had serious adverse consequences for the individual plaintiffs,” Fletcher wrote. “Plaintiffs presented evidence in the district court that they, as well as others returned to Mexico under the MPP, face targeted discrimination, physical violence, sexual assault, overwhelmed and corrupt law enforcement, lack of food and shelter, and practical obstacles to participation in court proceedings in the United States. The hardship and danger to individuals returned to Mexico under the MPP have been repeatedly confirmed by reliable news reports.”


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Any effort to regain control of the borders is ruled unconstitutional.
1 posted on 02/28/2020 10:48:02 AM PST by karpov
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I wonder how the SCOTUS feels about this.


2 posted on 02/28/2020 10:49:14 AM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: karpov

Okay, so this is real, it is today? (A similar FR post is dated from last April.


3 posted on 02/28/2020 10:50:34 AM PST by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: karpov

This makes NO sense.

Why doesn’t America have the right (through the President’s organization) to keep people out who don’t belong here???


4 posted on 02/28/2020 10:51:45 AM PST by Oscar in Batangas (January 20, 2017, High Noon. The end of an error.)
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To: karpov

And the hits just keep coming.


5 posted on 02/28/2020 10:52:25 AM PST by JoSixChip (I'm an American Nationalist)
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Who cares about their well-being? The only people who are allowed to apply for admission are from outside of Mexico, per the UN. Refugees must go to the next country over to apply for being there.

That’s not the US unless you are a Mexican.

6 posted on 02/28/2020 10:52:26 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: karpov
Dear God,

Any time now for a reboot. It isn't going to get better as long as the left exists on this planet.

7 posted on 02/28/2020 10:52:38 AM PST by CatOwner
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the commie judges are seditious and must be replaced ASAP!
this is an intolerable ruling, absolutely treasonous


8 posted on 02/28/2020 10:52:44 AM PST by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE).)
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This will go to an en banc review before it goes to SCOTUS.

The injunction is very likely to be blocked at the en banc review.

The 3 judges in question are the old 9th.


9 posted on 02/28/2020 10:54:28 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: ConservativeMind

I didn’t get a word right in there:

The only people who areN’T allowed to apply for admission are from outside of Mexico, per the UN.


10 posted on 02/28/2020 10:54:45 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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"The hardship and danger to individuals returned to Mexico under the MPP have been repeatedly confirmed by reliable news reports.”

So hearsay and rumor are admissible if it benefits the left.

11 posted on 02/28/2020 10:54:59 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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Around 59,000 people are currently a part of the program

Let's house those 59,000 criminals on the grounds of the 9th circuit . . . until the Supreme Court overturns this lawless demand of an out of control Obama court.

12 posted on 02/28/2020 10:55:42 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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I thought that they said Trump flipped the court with the judges who decide the cases the other day.


13 posted on 02/28/2020 10:56:01 AM PST by TakebackGOP
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To: karpov

Judge William Fletcher, appointed 1998, by Slick. But don’t tell Roberts he’s a Clinton Judge.


14 posted on 02/28/2020 10:57:20 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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There are entirely too many courts. Which ruling is “final”? What a joke. Trump should just use the ruling that he can ban countries and ban them. System is not a system at all


15 posted on 02/28/2020 10:58:34 AM PST by wiseprince
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As I understand it, you don’t apply for asylum at our border.

You are supposed to apply in the first nation you enter outside your own.

Failing to do that, results in people doing it at our border.

These judges have fallen flat on their face here.


16 posted on 02/28/2020 10:59:21 AM PST by DoughtyOne (The DNC has a taxidermist on speed for Nancy, Hillary, and Ruth.)
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"Any effort to regain control of the borders is ruled unconstitutional."

No it isn't.

It's a temporary injunction until the case is heard. And it's based on an interpretation of immigration law, not the Constitution.

17 posted on 02/28/2020 11:00:02 AM PST by mlo
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According to this judge an illegal cannot stay in Mexico because the police are corrupt there. What about the fact that we have better convenience stores and our television shows are much better also?


18 posted on 02/28/2020 11:00:20 AM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Alas Babylon!

a ‘so-called’ judge?


19 posted on 02/28/2020 11:00:41 AM PST by RitchieAprile (available monkeys looking for the change..)
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To: karpov

In my humble opinion the judge is just helping trump to get reelected.


20 posted on 02/28/2020 11:01:20 AM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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