Judge blocks border patrol agents from conducting 'credible fear' interviews
8/31/20 REUTERS LEGAL 22:35:10
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Daniel Wiessner
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August 31, 2020
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents call the names of asylum seekers that have a court hearing that day as a group of migrants, who returned to Mexico to await their U.S. asylum hearing, block the Puerta Mexico international border crossing bridge to demand a speedier asylum process in Matamoros, Mexico October 10, 2019. REUTERS/Veronica G. Cardenas
(Reuters) - A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Monday blocked U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents from interviewing asylum seekers who claim to have a "credible fear" of persecution in their home countries, calling the government's...
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