The leading US Citizens’ Rights Group on Monday filed a lawsuit that target US President Donald Trump prohibiting asylum at the border of the US-Mexico, saying that limitations effectively block all access to asylum for migrants at the border, violating US laws and international contracts.
In a lawsuit filed by the US Union for Civic Freedom (ACLU), he challenges the prohibition issued by Trump after taking his duty on January 20, which blocks all migrants “engaged in the southern border” from the claim of Asylum or other humanitarian protection.
This decision is “as illegal as unprecedented”, the group – which he led ACLU – they say in the appeal, filed in the Federal Court in Washington.
“The Government does exactly what Congress has determined by the Statute that the United States should not work. Returning asylum seekers – not only single adults, but also families – in the countries where Congress has provided:” The lawyers wrote.
The appeal was filed on behalf of the Florence project based in Arizona, the Processing Center for Immigrant Las American, based in El Pas and Raices based in Texas.
The Ministry of Homeland Security in the statement said he did not comment on the upcoming legislation.
Trump, a Republican, has taken a number of executive actions to distract illegal immigration and enhance the arrests and deportations of migrants in the United States illegally.
‘Countless families will be in danger’
Actions include sending additional American military troops to the border and directing other federal agencies to help carry out immigration. Trump’s asylum ban on the border goes beyond the limit set by former President Joe Biden in June to discourage illegal transitions.
The Biden limit was related to the legal entry program that enabled 1,450 migrants a day to dispel meetings at the legal transition of the border to request asylum, the initiative Trump ended for hours after taking over his duty.
Bidan restrictions remain in force and subject to the separate legal challenge of ACLU.
Proponents say that the right to seek asylum is contained in the Law on the Immigration of the Earth and that the denial of migrants sets the right to set people who flee the war or persecution in serious danger.
Lee Gellernt, lawyer to ACLU who connected other distinguished cases of asylum, says Trump’s ban was unprecedented.
“It eliminates all the ways of seeking asylum, completely neglecting the legal system created by Congress,” Gellernt said in a statement.
“Countless families will be at risk based on the pretension that we are under the invasion of desperate immigrants.”
Critics said that relatively few people who come to the US are looking for asylum actually qualified and that years are required to overloaded the immigration courts to decide on such demands. People seeking asylum must show fear of persecution on the rather narrow bases of race, religion, nationality or belonging to a particular social or political group.
The groups claimed that immigration “even at elevated levels” did not represent the invasion and noticed that the number of people entering the ground between the ports of the entrance falls had fallen to downs that were not seen since August 2020.
Trump’s latest asylum prohibition uses statute known as 212 (f) to block all migrants on the southern border from asylum requests, the same legal authority that Trump used to his travel policies to travel to the Muslim majority and other nations. The Supreme Court supported the VRUMPO’s 2018 travel prohibition version.
The groups claimed that Trump’s Declaration was “an extreme example of presidential exaggeration.” They said that the government “summarized the unclean” – often in just a few hours – without giving the opportunity to apply for asylum or other forms of protection to which they legally have the right to give them the opportunity to make a phone call.
