DC judge halts Trump’s 15-day asylum deadline.
January 18, 2021
A federal judge stopped the Trump administration’s new restrictions on asylum, which imposed a 15-day deadline to apply from the first immigration court hearing instead of a full year after entering the U.S. The judge granted a preliminary injunction that a coalition of immigrants’ rights groups had pushed for, preventing the rules from going into effect a week before the Biden administration is set to take over.
The regulations were finalized in December by EOIR after a 30-day comment period and were set to take effect Friday. The lawsuit was originally filed Jan. 8, and the injunction will remain in place until the court further rules on the case.