Migrants from Central America, sent back to Mexico to await their outcome of their cases under the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), eat at El Buen Pastor shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, February 28, 2020. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez.
(Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday temporarily put on hold a decision to block one of President Donald Trump's signature immigration policies that reined in a surge of migrants on the southern border, forcing tens of thousands to wait in Mexico.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a Trump administration request to pause its ruling from earlier on Friday, to allow the government to ask the Supreme Court to take up the issue.
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