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Biden’s Asylum Restrictions Got Tossed. What Now?

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Amber McKinney opens the show with Alex Lawson and Haley Knoth on a busy legal-news week. The conversation starts with the usual newsroom banter before Amber tees up a later segment with senior immigration reporter Britton Eakin about a Biden asylum policy that was stopped in court. That story becomes the episode’s center of gravity. Before getting there, the hosts take up a D.C. federal judge’s order requiring Covington & Burling to identify seven clients tied to a cyberattack investigation. The discussion keeps coming back to how fact-specific and SEC-driven that ruling is. The show then moves to TCPA standing. The hosts explain that federal courts are now largely aligned on the issue, which makes it easier for plaintiffs to go after companies that use automated text and call marketing. One attorney’s view points the next fight toward Florida state court. That possible battleground matters because a Florida appellate ruling has said there is no standing in that kind of case. The episode then returns to immigration. Eakin lays out what the Biden administration was trying to accomplish with the asylum rule. The policy made people presumptively ineligible for asylum unless they used the CBP One app to schedule arrival at a port of entry or had applied for asylum in a country they traveled through and been denied. The rule also included exceptions. Unaccompanied minors were exempt, and limited carveouts existed for especially compelling situations. A California federal judge found the policy unlawful. The judge said the executive branch cannot restrict where and how people seek asylum. The hosts treat the ruling as significant for both asylum seekers and border cities along the southern border. The segment keeps returning to the practical stakes instead of lingering on abstraction. The show closes with credits and a light sign-off after the legal roundup is done.

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A court ruling, a border policy, and the fallout that follows.

This Pro Se episode focuses on a California federal judge's ruling that found a Biden administration asylum policy unlawful, and it handles the basics cleanly.

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