Immigration
May 15, 2023
ACLU tries to halt Biden rule on asylum-seekers
The ACLU asked U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar in Oakland for permission to amend and supplement its complaint against the rules, which Eiland said violated U.S. asylum law and is arbitrary and capricious.
The American Civil Liberties Union and immigration groups filed a challenge to a Biden administration rule directed at all non-Mexican asylum-seekers who traveled through another country en route to the United States.
The ACLU argues that the new rule mimics two Trump-era rules. “They are basically the same policies,” Katrina L. Eiland of the ACLU Foundation Immigrants’ Rights Project of San Francisco said Friday.
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