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Mullin v. Al Otro Lado · ¶66

Respondents sought relief that §1252(f)(1) prohibits. The District Court certified their proposed class of “ `all noncitizens who seek or will seek to access the U. S. asylum process by presenting themselves' ” at a port of entry at the U. S.Mexico border and who “ `were or will be denied access to the U. S. asylum process by or at the instruction of' ” border officials. Al Otro Lado, Inc. v. Mayorkas, 619 F. Supp. 3d 1029, 1033, n. 2 (SD Cal. 2022). They asked the court for an injunction against the Government's “metering” practice, which temporarily prevented class members from entering the country to be inspected under § 1225. Id., at 1035–1036; see ante, at 264–265. They also asked the court to appoint a magistrate judge as a “special master . . . to monitor and oversee” the Government's “implementation of all class-wide injunctive relief.” 619 F. Supp. 3d, at 1036.
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