BORDER/COURTS/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “An order a federal judge issued Monday [7-3-18] requiring individualized decisions on whether some asylum-seekers can be released into the U.S. poses a new legal threat to President Donald Trump’s effort to crack down on migrants crossing the border from Mexico. U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg said there is strong evidence that five offices of the Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement were ignoring a 2009 agency directive requiring case-by-case determinations on whether asylum seekers who passed the initial ‘credible fear’ screening could be released pending an immigration judge’s decision on their claim. Boasberg said lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union justified the injunction by showing that releases of such immigrants by some offices dropped dramatically after Trump took office last year. Between February and September of last year, 100 percent of parole applications at three ICE offices were denied, the judge said, while two other offices released eight percent or fewer of those requesting release.”
-Josh Gerstein, “Judge’s order could undercut Trump’s immigrant detention plan,” Politico, July 2, 2018 7:41 pm