Trump's migration plan dealt major blow as court says president 'can't do that'

A US appeals court dealt a major blow toDonald Trumpon Friday as it blocked his executive order suspending asylum access, a key pillar of the Republican president’s plan to crack down onmigrationat the southern border of the US. A three-judge panel from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found that immigration laws give people the right to apply for asylum at the border, and the president can’t circumvent that.

The panel concluded that the Immigration and Nationality Act doesn’t authorise the president to remove the plaintiffs under “procedures of his own making,” allow him to suspend plaintiffs’ right to apply for asylum or curtail procedures for adjudicating their anti-torture claims. Judge J. Michelle Childs, who was nominated to the bench by Democratic PresidentJoe Biden, said: “The power by proclamation to temporarily suspend the entry of specified foreign individuals into the United States does not contain implicit authority to override the INA’s mandatory process to summarily remove foreign individuals."

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American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) attorney Lee Gelernt said in a statement that the appellate ruling is “essential for those fleeing danger" who, he said, "have been denied even a hearing to present asylum claims" under the Trump administration’s executive order.

Judge Justin Walker, a Trump nominee, wrote a partial dissent. He said the law gives immigrants protections against removal to countries where they would be persecuted, but the administration can issue broad denials of asylum applications.

Walker, however, agreed with the majority that the president cannot deport migrants to countries where they will be persecuted or strip them of mandatory procedures that protect against their removal.

Judge Cornelia Pillard, who was nominated by Democratic President Barack Obama, also heard the case.

Source: Daily Express :: World Feed