The following statement was issued by Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), in response to U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar’s temporary injunction blocking the Trump administration from requiring that asylum seekers present themselves lawfully at a port of entry:
“Last night, yet another unelected activist judge stopped the president from using the authority granted to him by Congress to protect the integrity of our immigration system and our national sovereignty. As the Supreme Court recently affirmed in Trump v. Hawaii, Congress has given the president broad authority to limit or even stop the entry of aliens. When President Trump took action to ensure that asylum is not a free pass to cross our borders illegally, he was on firm legal footing. However, that doesn’t seem to matter anymore, as a single district judge can now violate decades of Supreme Court precedent on executive power and sovereignty to advance the agenda of open borders groups. We urge the administration to seek immediate review of this ruling.”
