Authority: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (USA)

Date: 07/06/2020

Subject: The decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, found the illegitimacy of the interim final rule “Asylum Eligibility and Procedural Modifications”, issued at the same time on 16 July 2019 by the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security, aiming at making the procedure for asylum inaccessible for migrants, who entered the United States through the southern border, unless they already asked for a similar protection in another State during their transit

Parties: East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al.

Original language: English

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 18 Right to asylum

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