Judge blocks Trump's asylum crackdown

1. Sullivan who a day earlier had excoriated former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn ordered the government to allow migrants with iffy claims to be given a full chance to make their case for asylum.
2. The attorney general's direction to deny most domestic violence or gang violence claims at the credible fear determination stage is fundamentally inconsistent with the threshold screening standard that Congress established, he wrote.
3. A federal judge blocked the Trump administration's attempts to speed up deportations for people with bogus asylum claims, ruling Wednesday that the president and his team had gone beyond what Congress intended.
4. His decision overturns a move by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who had tried to block asylum claims of migrants who said they faced gang violence or domestic abuse back home.
5. Because it is the will of Congress not the whims of the executive that determines the standard for expedited removal, the court finds that those policies are unlawful, Judge Sullivan wrote.

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