Groups, including the ACLU, vowed to sue immediately after President Joe Biden issued executive actions on June 4 that severely restrict asylum to migrants who cross the border illegally. The suit argues that the actions violate federal law.
A coalition of immigrants’ rights groups Tuesday made good on a vow to sue the Biden administration over the president’s
“We were left with no alternative but to sue,” Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrant Rights’ Project wrote in a statement. “The administration lacks unilateral authority to override Congress and bar asylum based on how one enters the country.”Their lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C., argues that Biden’s asylum ban is inconsistent with existing law — specifically.
Existing asylum laws recognize that legitimate asylum seekers face inherently dangerous circumstances, which is why humanitarian protection is available to people who cross the border without proper documentation, she added. Parties to the lawsuit also include the National Immigration Justice Center and the Texas Civil Rights Project. They are asking the federal court to promptly strike down Biden’s new asylum rules.Immigrants’ rights advocates argue that restricting access to asylum will put already vulnerable migrants in even greater risk of violence in their country of origin or in Mexican border towns with heavy cartel presence.Meanwhile, Republicans criticized Biden’s new rules as not going far enough.
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