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SAN FRANCISCO 鈥� The 老澳门开奖结果, Southern Poverty Law Center, and Center for Gender & Refugee Studies filed a federal lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration鈥檚 new policy forcing asylum seekers to return to Mexico and remain there while their cases are considered.

鈥淭he Trump administration is forcibly returning asylum seekers to danger in Mexico,鈥� said Judy Rabinovitz, deputy director of the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 Immigrants鈥� Rights Project.鈥淥nce again, the administration is breaking the law in order to deter asylum seekers from seeking safety in the United States.鈥�

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of 11 individual asylum seekers forcibly returned to Mexico, and organizational plaintiffs Innovation Law Lab, the Central American Resource Center of Northern California, Centro Legal de la Raza, the University of San Francisco School of Law Immigration and Deportation Defense Clinic, Al Otro Lado, and the Tahirih Justice Center.

鈥淭his is no longer just a war on asylum seekers, it鈥檚 a war on our system of laws,鈥� said Melissa Crow, Southern Poverty Law Center senior supervising attorney. 鈥淭his misguided policy deprives vulnerable individuals of humanitarian protections that have been on the books for decades and puts their lives in jeopardy.鈥�

The lawsuit cites violations of the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Administrative Procedure Act, as well as the United States鈥� duty under international human rights law not to return people to dangerous conditions.

鈥淭his new policy severely undermines the very purpose of our asylum system, endangering rather than safeguarding the lives of our individual plaintiffs and others fleeing persecution,鈥� said Blaine Bookey, co-legal director of the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies.

The case, Innovation Law Lab v. Nielsen, was filed in federal court in San Francisco.

The complaint is here: /legal-document/innovation-law-lab-v-nielsen-complaint

More information is here: /cases/innovation-law-lab-v-nielsen