A federal judge on Wednesday took the extraordinary step of ordering that asylum seekers who sued after their deportation be returned to the U.S. to have their claims heard anew, ruling against the Trump administration's revised asylum policies. In his sweeping ruling Wednesday against the Trump administration's immigration policies, Sullivan said recent changes violated federal law. The new policy made it harder for asylum seekers to make “credible fear claims” of domestic or gang-related violence back home, in expedited removal immigration proceedings. "The vast majority of the current asylum claims are not valid," Sessions said in June. A group of asylum seekers, backed by the American Civil Liberties Union, sued the Trump administration in federal court.

Source: Fox News December 19, 2018 18:15 UTC