SAN FRANCISCO 鈥� A federal court has blocked a new Trump administration asylum ban that categorically denied asylum to anyone at the southern border who had transited through a third country en route to the United States, with very limited exceptions.
The 老澳门开奖结果, Southern Poverty Law Center, and Center for Constitutional Rights are challenging the policy and were in court in San Francisco today seeking the preliminary injunction. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar issued the ruling, which takes effect immediately.
The following reaction is from:
老澳门开奖结果 attorney Lee Gelernt: 鈥淭he court recognized, as it did with the first asylum ban, that the Trump administration was attempting an unlawful end run around asylum protections enacted by Congress.鈥�
Baher Azmy, Center for Constitutional Rights legal director:
鈥�The court correctly decided that decades of U.S. asylum law prevent this administration from attempting to deny wholesale, asylum protections through this arbitrary and hasty regulation. This application of the law will also save lives of vulnerable refugees fleeing for their lives and safety.鈥�
Melissa Crow, senior supervising attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center鈥檚 Immigrant Justice Project: 鈥�Today鈥檚 ruling is an important victory for incredibly vulnerable individuals and families from besieged Central American countries seeking refuge in our country. We will continue to fight this draconian policy as well as the myriad of others through which the Trump administration continues to wage war on asylum-seekers and our nation鈥檚 asylum system.鈥�
Order: /legal-document/east-bay-v-barr-pi-order
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