Federal Judge Reinstates Injunction Against Trump Administration's Asylum Rule
"The question now before the court is whether those harms can be addressed by any relief short of a nationwide injunction. The answer is that they cannot," District Judge Jon Tigar wrote in his order.
According to Tigar, "uniform immigration policy" was a necessity.
Tigar, an Obama administration appointee in the Northern District of California, had once before imposed a nationwide injunction. But a U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit panel said the four immigrant-rights organizations challenging the restriction had not presented enough evidence to warrant a nationwide injunction.
The panel said the injunction should apply only in the border states within the 9th Circuit, California and Arizona. That removed the restriction in Texas and New Mexico. A U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity, said the new rule is being applied along the border in those states.
The White House was not happy about the ruling.Tigar said he interpreted the 9th Circuit’s ruling to mean he was free to reimpose the nationwide injunction if there was evidence to warrant it. Because some of the organizations have clients outside the 9th Circuit, he said, only a nationwide injunction would supply the relief to which they were entitled.
The Supreme Court is considering an emergency appeal in the case over whether an injunction should be implemented until the issue is fully litigated.

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