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Judge blocks Trump’s ban on asylum at the southern US border

A volunteer walks along a road next to the border wall separating Mexico and the US in Jacumba Hot Springs, California [Gregory Bull/AP Photo]

A federal court has ruled that President Donald Trump overstepped his authority by barring asylum claims at the southern border of the United States, as part of his broader immigration crackdown.

On Wednesday, US District Judge Randolph Moss warned that Trump’s actions threatened to create a “presidentially decreed, alternative immigration system” separate from the laws established by Congress.

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