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Asylum rules test Trump's legal skills to make new policy

by Associated Press
| July 17, 2020 12:03 AM

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Critics of the Trump administration's most sweeping set of rules to restrict asylum in the United States sent in a deluge of comments opposing the effort, hoping an old law that serves as a check on presidential power will weaken or even doom it.

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