ELLIOT SPAGAT
Associated Press
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday temporarily halted a Trump administration policy to make asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. immigration courts.
The same court decided to keep another major change on hold, one that denies asylum to anyone who enters the U.S. illegally from Mexico.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on the two policies that are central to President Donald Trump's asylum crackdown, dealing the administration a major setback, even if it proves temporary.
The question before the judges was whether to let the policies take effect during legal challenges.
The Trump administration has made asylum an increasingly remote possibility at a time when claims have soa
