Overview

• Judge Randolph Moss found that the January proclamation stripping asylum rights from migrants entering via Mexico exceeded presidential authority.
• Moss wrote that neither the Constitution nor federal immigration law authorizes the president to suspend established asylum procedures.
• The decision remains on hold for two weeks to allow the administration to seek an appeal before asylum protections are reinstated.
• The Department of Homeland Security declined to comment on the ruling, and legal analysts say an appeal is highly likely.
• This ruling marks the latest judicial intervention blocking the administration’s efforts to tighten asylum and border enforcement.