BORDER/COURTS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal appeals court found a central pillar of the Trump administration’s immigration agenda legally invalid on Friday [2-28-20], ruling that asylum seekers must be allowed into the United States while their cases weave through American immigration courts. The court stayed its decision, however, in order to allow the government time to appeal the ruling. After a year in which nearly a million migrants crossed the southwestern border, jamming processing facilities and defying President Trump’s attempts to curtail immigration, border crossings have dropped sharply in recent months, in part because of the administration’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy, the subject of Friday’s court ruling. The decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, if allowed to stand, would eliminate one of the administration’s key levers for controlling the arrival of new asylum seekers.”
–Caitlin Dickerson, “Confusion on the Border as Appeals Court Rules Against Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy,” The New York Times online, February 28, 2020