Sacramento, July 3 -- A US federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump's latest effort to shut the nation's asylum door, ruling that the White House overstepped both Congress's immigration statutes and the Constitution.
In a 128-page opinion, Judge Randolph D Moss of the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday wrote that Trump's January proclamation, which branded the rise in border crossings as an "invasion" and tried to create "an alternative immigration system," bypassed the protections Congress built into the US Immigration and Nationality Act.
Since the proclamation would have denied humanitarian screenings to people entering between ports of entry as well as at official crossings, the court found it "fundame...