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DOJ asks Supreme Court to allow Trump asylum denial rule

The US Department of Justice on Monday asked the Supreme Court to stay an injunction blocking a July 15 Trump administration asylum rule requiring most asylum-seekers to ask for protection in another country before reaching the US-Mexico border.

Under the new rule, people from countries like Honduras and El Salvador, where one would have to travel through another country before entering the US, would have to be denied asylum in Guatemala or Mexico before applying in the US, and Guatemalans would have to be denied first in Mexico.

US Solicitor General Noel Francisco wrote in the request that the change to the asylum rule “alleviates a crushing burden on the U.S. asylum system by prioritizing asylum seekers who most need asylum in the United States. The rule also screens out asylum claims that are less likely to be meritorious by denying asylum to aliens who refused to seek protection in third countries en route to the southern border.”

Francisco argues that the injunction on the rule is “deeply flawed” and “vastly overbroad.”

The July rule was an update on a more stringent one denied by the Supreme Court in December 2018, which sought to immediately deny asylum to migrants who illegally cross the southern border into the US.

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