The Trump administration has claimed there is an “invasion” on the U.S.-Mexico border to justify summarily expelling migrants without giving them a chance to apply for asylum.
By Maria Sacchetti, The Washington PostA woman on the Paso del Norte border bridge in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, learns that her Jan. 20 appointment through the U.S. Customs and Border Protection CBP One application was canceled soon after President Donald Trump took office.
Trump declared an emergency on the U.S. southern border immediately after taking office and has invoked an executive power that he says enables him to suspend admission to foreigners he deems “detrimental” to U.S. interests. The ACLU says Trump is overriding Congress, which passed laws allowing migrants to apply for asylum once they arrive in the United States.
Legal aid groups filed the lawsuit against the Trump administration on behalf of the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services in San Antonio, the Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center in El Paso, and the Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project in Tucson. The groups asked the court to declare Trump’s proclamation unlawful and to bar federal officials from implementing it.
“Nobody’s being released,” he said Sunday at the National Sheriffs’ Association winter conference, to applause from the sheriffs.
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