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A federal judge in California temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s new asylum restriction, undercutting one of the White House’s most aggressive immigration moves. The ruling landed after civil rights groups challenged the policy, and it immediately put the administration on the defensive over whether it had tried to rewrite asylum law by executive fiat.
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A federal judge in California temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s new asylum restriction, undercutting one of the White House’s most aggressive immigration moves. The ruling landed after civil rights groups challenged the policy, and it immediately put the administration on the defensive over whether it had tried to rewrite asylum law by executive fiat.
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