DC Circuit blocks Trump border asylum ban as violation of immigration law

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled in RAICES v. Mullin that President Trump's January 2025 presidential proclamation suspending asylum applications at the southern border violated Section 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which guarantees any person the right to apply for asylum regardless of how they entered the United States. The court found that INA Section 212(f), which grants the president power to suspend entry of classes of aliens, does not override the separate statutory right to apply for asylum. The ruling set up a likely Supreme Court appeal and was the third federal circuit court to block the administration's asylum ban.