::THE SLICE REPORT WITH MONA AUSTIN

  Yesterday evening, a single district judge in California, based on a complaint filed by a few activist groups with no legal standing, issued a nationwide injunction against a lawful and necessary rule that discourages abuse of our asylum system – and did so despite a ruling from another Federal judge earlier in the day rejecting the same request by other plaintiffs and suggesting that the Government was likely to prevail against challenges to the rule. Congress authorized the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security to establish categorical limitations on eligibility for asylum, and this rule properly used that authority to encourage migrants to seek asylum in other countries they have traveled through before reaching the United States. The tyranny of a dysfunctional system that permits plaintiffs to forum shop in order to find a single district judge who will purport to dictate immigration policy to the entire Nation – ...

By Mona Austin On Thursday, Pres. Trump rolled out the tenants of a new immigration plan, the Immigration Modernization Act, looking toward fulfilling it in a possible second term.  Many of the details were a reiteration of the GOP's views on immigration reform, but surprisingly there were no glaring cries for a border wall to be built as per the usual rallying cry that nudges the Republican base.  Yet,  border security remains a priority in the immigration reform effort.   "W e’re already building the wall, and we should have close to 400 miles built by the end of next year, and probably even more than that."  The president said he wants to adopt a universal admission standard that will stop "asylum abuse" with a point system he described as "merit and heart" based.  The Democrats have already begun to call it  a campaign speech noticing the difference in tone.  A USA Today article called the plan dead-on-arrival even before he rolled...