Asylum Seekers Avoid Deportation for Now Under New Trump Policy

An emergency motion filed by eight asylum seekers trying to stay their imminent deportation under the Trump Administration’s new immigration policies was denied as moot.

The administration agreed not to “remove the Individual Plaintiffs pursuant to Proclamation 10888 during the pendency of this case,” said Judge Randolph D. Moss Monday for the US District Court for the District of Columbia. The terms of the proclamation are sweeping and include the suspension of multiple immigration laws, but Moss said that the defendants “agreed not to employ these (or any other) provisions of Proclamation 10888 in removing any of the Individual Plaintiffs ...