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  1. February 19, 2021

    Judge Backs Sanctions For CBP Officers' Note-Shredding

    A California magistrate judge has recommended sanctioning the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection, finding Thursday that two officials shredded notes relevant to asylum-seekers' claims of being illegally turned away from the southern border.

  2. January 18, 2021

    Calif. Judge Shields Asylum-Seekers Waiting In Mexico, Again

    A California federal judge blocked the Trump administration's second attempt to bar a class of asylum-seekers who passed through another country en route to the U.S., saying Monday that they had raised valid concerns about whether a previous injunction was being flouted.  

  3. August 07, 2020

    Immigrants Denied Asylum Access Can Proceed As Class

    A California federal judge has determined that immigrants who were denied the chance to seek asylum can proceed as a class, finding that the individual circumstances in which they were denied asylum access don't defeat the commonality of their claims.

  4. July 30, 2020

    Feds Fight Migrants' Class Cert. Bid In Asylum 'Turnback' Suit

    A California federal judge appeared likely to allow migrants who claim they were denied access to the asylum system to proceed as a class, telling the objecting government lawyer at a Thursday hearing that his concerns would ultimately be resolved at trial.

  5. July 17, 2020

    Judge Tentatively Certifies Class Denied Asylum Access

    A California federal judge tentatively ruled that immigrants suing the federal government for not being allowed to apply for asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border can proceed as a class, finding that their claims meet the criteria for class certification.

  6. February 14, 2020

    Not Enough Asylum-Seekers For Class Cert., US Says

    The U.S. government fired back at an attempt by asylum-seekers to secure class certification in a case immigration advocacy groups say affects thousands of people waiting at the border to enter the country and could send them to three countries in Central America instead.

  7. February 12, 2020

    21 AGs Oppose DHS Rule Barring Asylum Seekers At Border

    Twenty states and the District of Columbia urged the Ninth Circuit Tuesday to uphold a lower court decision temporarily barring the Trump administration from blocking entry of non-Mexican asylum seekers caught in that country when new restrictions took effect for in-transit, "third country" immigrants.

  8. December 12, 2019

    Migrants Seek To Block Policy Sending Asylees Outside US

    A group of asylum seekers has asked a California federal court to grant them class certification so they can pursue a bid to block a new Trump administration rule that lets immigration authorities send them to Central American countries.

  9. November 19, 2019

    Migrants Waiting In Mexico Shielded From Asylum Bar

    The Trump administration can't impose asylum restrictions on migrants who passed through a third country if they had presented themselves at the border before the policy took effect but were forced to wait in Mexico, a California federal judge held on Tuesday.

  10. July 30, 2019

    Gov't Must Face Challenge To 'Turnback' Asylum Policy

    The challenge against U.S. Customs and Border Protection's alleged policy to illegally turn back migrants seeking asylum at the southwestern border will move forward after a California federal judge on Monday found that the plaintiffs sufficiently alleged its unlawfulness.

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