Federal Appeals Court Allows Trump’s Return of Asylum-Seekers Policy to Proceed for Now

A man from Honduras carries his daughter Allison, 4, as he walks amid a caravan of thousands of migrants from Central America en route to the United States in the outskirts of Arriaga, Mexico, on Oct. 27, 2018. Adrees Latif/Reuters

A federal appeals court has temporarily halted a lower court’s order to stop a Trump administration policy that forces asylum-seekers traveling north into the United States to wait in Mexico while their claims are processed.

A three-judge panel from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked the lower court’s ruling from going into effect.