Clinton Judge Sides with Leftist Groups to Stop Asylum Ban for Child Abusers, Drunk Drivers

The government is exceeding its authority for trying to ban illegal immigrant child abusers, drunk drivers, and a series of other violent criminals from getting asylum in the United States, according to open borders groups challenging a Trump administration rule scheduled to take effect this month.

A Clinton-appointed federal judge agrees with the leftist nonprofits and has blocked implementation of the policy issued jointly by the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice to ban foreigners with serious criminal histories from being rewarded with asylum and all the taxpayer-funded perks that come with it.

A consortium of open borders groups sued the administration in early November to ban the rule, claiming among other things, that the government exceeded its authority in its attempts to keep criminals out.

In a document asking the court to deny the ban requested by the open borders coalition the government writes that the DHS and DOJ rule "Ensures that asylum is not granted to criminal aliens who endanger our country." The court brief also cites the president's authority to keep criminals out of the U.S. "Awarding the discretionary benefit of asylum to dangerous criminals encourages lawless behavior, subjects the United States to danger, and undermines the asylum system," government attorneys write in the filing.

"Despite the Executive Branch's broad authority and sound aims, Plaintiffs-organizations that are not even regulated by the Rule-ask this Court to bar the Rule's application to anyone, so that the Executive Branch could not apply it to child abusers, alien smugglers, wife beaters, stalkers, serial drunk drivers, various fraudsters, or persons who commit gang violence. This Court should deny that extraordinary request." The government court filing also reminds that Congress has empowered the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security to decide who may be admitted to this country as a refugee.

Illston concurs with the leftist nonprofits' claims that the government exceeded its authority and writes in her decision that the rule is "Substantively and procedurally defective." Appointed to the federal bench in 1995 by Bill Clinton, the judge also says that the new policy is unnecessary because laws already exist prohibiting asylum for those who have committed certain crimes.

One of the groups challenging the policy asserts in a celebratory statement that the defeated regulation is part of the Trump administration's attempt to "Dismantle asylum protections as part of its anti-immigrant agenda."

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