A leading US civil rights group filed a lawsuit on Monday that was aimed at the extensive ban on asylum by US President Donald Trump on the border between the USA and Mexico, and said the restrictions block the entire access to asylum for migrants at the Border in violation of the US laws and international contracts effectively.
The lawsuit submitted by the American Civil Liberties Union calls for a ban on the ban on the office on January 20 that blocks all migrants that “are involved in the invasion across the southern border” in order to claim asylum or other humanitarian protective measures .
Trump, a Republican, took a number of executive measures to prevent illegal immigration and illegally increase the arrests and deportations of migrants in the United States.
The measures include sending additional US military troops to the border and the instructions of other federal authorities to support the enforcement of immigration. Trump’s ban on asylum on the border continues than the restrictions of former President Joe Biden in June to discourage illegal crossings.
The restrictions of bidges were associated with a legal entry program that made it possible to plan 1,450 migrants a day to plan appointments at a statutory border crossing in order to apply for asylum, an initiative that Trump ended hours after taking office.
The bidges remain and are subject to a separate legal contestation of the ACLU.
Lee learned, an ACLU lawyer who negotiated other prominent asylum cases, said Trump’s ban was unprecedented.
“It eliminates all the paths to search for asylum and completely ignore the legal system created by the congress,” said in an explanation.
“Countless families will be at risk due to the pretext that we are under an invasion of desperate immigrants.”
The lawsuit conducted by the ACLU was submitted on behalf of three immigrant interest groups in Texas and Arizona in front of a federal court in Washington, DC,
The ACLU successfully blocked several Trump guidelines to restrict asylum during its presidency in 2017-2021.
Trump’s most recent ban on asylum uses a law called 212 (f) to block all migrants on the southern border before the request of asylum. The Supreme Court confirmed a version of Trump’s travel ban in 2018.
