ACLU, Immigration Legal Aid Groups Sue Trump Administration Over Asylum Ban • Missouri Independent
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ACLU, Immigration Legal Aid Groups Sue Trump Administration Over Asylum Ban • Missouri Independent

Washington – American Civil Liberties Union, along with immigration groups for legal aid, brought the first major trial against the Trump administration’s proclamation of an “invasion” at the southern border to motivate expulsive migrants and prevent them from claiming asylum.

“This is an outstanding approach that will put countless lives in danger,” said Lee Gelernt, Deputy Director of ACLU’s immigrants’ rights project, in a statement. “No president has an authority to unilaterally override the protection that Congress has given the escaping danger.”

The suitsubmitted to the US District Court for District of Columbia, claims President Donald Trump’s 212 (F) Proclamation Surround asylum protection for migrants who are already land granted by Congress.

It includes expulsion of asylum seekers to countries where they would face harm, which the costume claims “Congress in the Charter ordered that the United States must not do.”

“It returns asylum seekers – not just individual adults, but families as well – to countries where they encounter persecution or torture, without allowing them to invoke the protection provided by Congress,” according to the costume. “The fact is that the proclamation does not even exclude lonely children, despite the specific protection that such children receive through a statute.”

Shutdown

The section that Trump quoted in his proclamation, section 212 (F), lies according to the Act on Immigration and Nationality. According to that section, the President has the authority to “cancel entry” for people without legal status in the country in certain circumstances. It was one of several Immigration -related executive order that Trump signed on his inaugural day to start his immigration.

Trump used the same authority during his first term to justify the so -called Muslim ban to prevent the entry of people from seven predominantly Muslim countries, including those with legal immigration status. The move was eventually struck, but after several audits, the United States Supreme Court eventually maintained the travel ban 2018.

In January 20, Proclamation, Trump characterized asylum seekers who seek entry into the US and Mexico border as an “invasion” and said that states need “protection” so that the White House will interrupt physical entry until the president considers the “invasion” over. Meetings at the southern limit Has been the lowest in several years.

Fast deportations

The suit claims that the removal of migrants without legal status on the US soil “occurs extremely quickly – often within hours – for individuals who can be flown on military jet aircraft to Mexico or their homeland directly from the border.”

The suit also claims that the proclamation damages the complainant’s legal aid work, which includes the refugee and immigrant center for education and legal services, Las America’s Immigrant Advocacy Center and Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project.

According to the suit, migrants have been told by immigration officials “that asylum” does not exist “, has witnessed material that the asylum process is demolished from the construction walls” by these officials and has been expelled “without being offered a chance to make a phone call to any, much less lawyer.”

ACLU, National Immigrant Justice Center, Texas Civil Rights Project, Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, ACLU in the District of Columbia and ACLU in Texas submitted on behalf of these legal assistance groups.

Last updated 17:18, February 3 2025