A federal appeals court questioned the Trump administration’s arguments for returning Central American migrants to Mexico while their asylum requests are adjudicated. A three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in San Francisco, heard arguments Wednesday on the administration’s request to put a hold on a federal judge’s ruling earlier this month that blocked the policy, known officially as the Migrant Protection Protocols, or MPP, but dubbed “remain in Mexico.”...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 24, 2019 20:59 UTC