Andrea Flores
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 25 Jun
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As long as Trump is in power and as long as Stephen Miller is in his White House, we don't have two parties thinking about how to fix the immigration system.
We have one party that's trying to remove as many immigrants as possible, and then we have one party that doesn't have a clear answer yet.
Yes.
So the first one is a case about an asylum policy that was used under the Obama administration.
I used to serve in the Obama administration, and it's about something called metering, where Border Patrol officers at ports of entry would turn back asylum seekers before they could get to the United States to claim asylum.
And so what this court essentially said is that it is okay, essentially, for
government to continue to do that.
But it's a bit of an odd case, I just want to say for listeners, you know, this involves an asylum restriction from 2016, when right now asylum at the border is unilaterally suspended.
That's right.
So when I was serving in the Biden White House in 2021, we knew metering was not an effective tool to manage the border at that point.
But essentially, yes, President Trump wanted to bring it back, even though there are not a lot of asylum seekers at the border right now, but they are just trying to unilaterally end asylum as we know it.
So they're fighting this sort of almost old policy they don't even need on a day-to-day basis because they are deporting anyone who tries to seek asylum at the border.
This is a completion of a longer case, but it really opens the door to like what on earth will Congress do with asylum policy?
Because each president, they like suspend it, ban it, temporarily pause it.
And we've just been going that way now really since the Obama administration.
So it's a little bit more, I mean, it will impact as many people as case number two, which is about temporary protected status, which there are 1.3 million people with TPS protections living and working in the United States today.
And the court decided that the president has the authority to terminate their legal status without judicial review from the courts, which
opening the door for what we know a lot of people are calling the biggest delegalization of immigrants we've seen in modern history.
For the asylum case, it means that asylum law is barely surviving this administration, right?
They've already suspended it at the border, and now they can just physically block the few people who may even still make it to the border and still have some procedural right to seek protection.
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