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Thursday, September 12, 2024
Courthouse News Service
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Presumption against asylum

DEL RIO, Texas — A federal court in Texas dismissed the state’s lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security over its rule, which requires undocumented migrants who traveled through countries other than their own before getting to the U.S.-Mexico border to be presumed ineligible for asylum unless they use the CBP One app. The state says that “en masse” parole for migrants imposes great costs on Texas, but Texas could not cite a precedent, history or tradition justifying its attempt to overturn a federal agency rule.

Read the ruling here.

Categories / Briefs, Civil Rights, Immigration

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