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Asylum Statute
Coverage of Asylum Statute in the Nexus archive.
- Appeals court rejects broad Trump administration bid to block asylum applications
A federal appeals court rejected President Trump's attempt to block migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border from seeking asylum, ruling it violated Congress-enacted laws. The court emphasized that the asylum statute grants individuals 'physically present' in the U.S. the right to apply for asylum, with narrow exceptions.