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On Monday, the leading American civil rights group filed a lawsuit aimed at banning US President Donald Trump to resort to the US -Mexican border, saying that restrictions prevent all access to resorting to migrants at the border in violation of American laws and international treaties.
The lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, challenges a ban on Trump after taking office on January 20, which prevents all immigrants “invaded in the southern border” from demanding asylum or other humanitarian protection.
Trump, a Republican, has taken a set of executive measures to deter illegal immigration, increase arrests and illegally deporting migrants in the United States.
The procedures include sending additional US military forces to the border and directing other federal agencies to help enforce immigration. Trump’s ban on asylum on the border goes beyond the restrictions set by former President Joe Biden in June to inhibit illegal crossings.
Biden’s restrictions were associated with a legal entry program that allowed 1,450 migrants a day to schedule the appointments at the Legal Borders Crossing Caliph to seek asylum, an initiative that ended in hours after he took office.
Biden’s restrictions remain in place and are subject to a separate legal challenge in the American Civil Liberties Union.
Lee Gilrrent, the lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, said that other prominent asylum -seeming cases said that Trump’s ban was unprecedented.
“It cancels all the ways to search for asylum, completely ignoring the legal system created by Congress,” Gilrrent said in a statement.
“It will be countless families at risk based on pretending that we are under the conquest of desperate immigrants.”
The lawsuit led by the American Civil Liberties Union was filed on behalf of three groups of immigrant advocates in Texas and Arizona at the Federal Court in Washington, DC.
ACLU prevented many Trump policies that restrict asylum during his presidency 2017-2021.
Trump’s latest law is used as a law known as 212 (f) to prevent all migrants on the southern border from demanding asylum, and the same legal authority that Trump used for his travel ban policies targeting Islamic majority and other countries. The Supreme Court upheld a copy of the Trump travel ban in 2018.
