Appellate panel finds president can’t circumvent laws that allow people to apply for asylum at the US-Mexico border

An appeals court on Friday blocked Donald Trump’s executive order suspending asylum access, a key pillar of the US president’s original plan to crack down on immigration at the southern border after he retook the White House.

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 cannot circumvent that.

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