BORDER/CALIFORNIA/COURTS/DREAMERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In renewing his order to bar people who cross the border illegally from seeking asylum, President Donald Trump issued a proclamation that criticized a federal judge that’s kept his policy in check thus far — an unusual step for such a formal order. Trump’s original November proclamation establishing the ban was blocked a federal judge in Northern California and upheld by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals. In order to ensure the ban would take effect should those courts be overturned, the White House had to renew the proclamation, which had expired, starting another 90-day clock…Trump has frequently railed against the 9th Circuit as ‘very unfair.’ His criticisms draw on previous decisions by judges that have kept other administration immigration policies from moving forward, like the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that Trump has sought to end. Last December, a panel of judges on the 9th Circuit upheld federal District Judge Jon Tigar’s original temporary injunction of the asylum ban. Tigar wrote that the ban ‘irreconcilably conflicts’ with immigration law and that restrictions would put asylum seekers at “increased risk of violence and other harms at the border” if it was to take effect.”
–Priscilla Alvarez, “Trump calls out judge as he renews asylum ban order,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, February 8, 2019 11:39 am