A large American civil rights group put a legal action on Monday targeting the ban by US President Donald Trump asylum at the American-Mexican border, saying that restrictions are effectively blocking any access to asylum for Migrants on the border in violation of American laws and international treaties.
The trial, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), questions a ban issued by Trump after having taken office on January 20 which blocks all migrants “engaged in the invasion through the South border” to claim asylum or other humanitarian protections.
This decision is “as illegal as it is unprecedented”, the groups – led by ACLU – for example in the complaint, filed by a Washington Federal Court.
“The government does exactly what the Congress by law has declared that the United States should not do. It returns asylum seekers – not only single adults, but also families – in the countries where they are confronted with Persecution or torture, without allowing them to invoke the protections The Congress has planned, “the lawyers wrote.
The complaint was filed on behalf of the Florence project based in Arizona, the Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, based in El Paso, and Raices of Texas.
The Ministry of Internal Security said in a statement that it does not comment on imminent legislation.
Trump, a Republican, took a range of executive actions to deter illegal immigration and accelerate the arrests and deportations of migrants to the United States illegally.
“Countless families will be in danger”
Actions include sending additional US military troops to the border and ordering other federal agencies to help the application of immigration. Trump’s ban on asylum at the border goes further than the restrictions put in place by former President Joe Biden in June to discourage illegal passages.
Biden restrictions have been associated with a legal entrance program which granted 1,450 migrants per day to plan meetings during a legal border position to request asylum, an initiative that Trump ended a few hours after taking office.
Biden restrictions remain in place and are subject to a distinct legal challenge from ACLU.
The defenders claim that the right to request asylum is devoted to the country’s immigration law and the refusal of migrants who puts the right to flee war or serious danger.
Lee Genernt, an aclu lawyer who pleaded other cases of leading asylum, says that Trump’s ban was unprecedented.
“It eliminates all avenues to search for asylum, completely ignoring the statutory system created by the congress,” said Genernt in a statement.
“Innumerable families will be in danger according to the claim that we are under an invasion by desperate immigrants.”
Critics have said that relatively few people who come to the United States in search of asylum ends in fact qualifying and that it takes over the overloaded immigration courts to determine such requests. People looking for asylum must demonstrate a fear of persecution on a fairly narrow field of race, religion, nationality or by belonging to a particular social or political group.
In the trial, the groups argued that immigration “even at high levels” does not constitute an invasion and noted that the number of people entering the country between the entrance ports had fallen into non -vain stockings Since August 2020.
Trump’s latest asylum ban uses a law known as 212 (F) to block all migrants on the southern border to claim asylum, the same legal authority that Trump used for his policies for prohibiting Travel targeting the Muslim majority and other nations. The Supreme Court confirmed a version of Trump’s travel ban in 2018.
The groups argued that Trump’s declaration was an “extreme example of presidential overtaking”. They said that the government “summarily expels non -citizens” – often in a few hours – without giving them the opportunity to request asylum or other forms of protection to which they are legally entitled and without giving them the opportunity to pass A telephone call.
