Baher Azmy explains why a new Trump administration asylum rule, recently blocked by a judge, would have been “a de facto end to asylum on the southern border, except for a small population of...
...The family is part of a lawsuit that the Center for Constitutional Rights is about to file on behalf of dozens of Yemenis who are both related to American citizens and had their visas approved...
A federal judge in San Francisco has temporarily blocked President Trump’s plan to bar nearly all migrants from seeking asylum in the United States. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar of...
...The first featured speaker of the briefing was Maria LaHood, Deputy Legal Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights. LaHood filed a lawsuit against Caterpillar, Inc. on behalf of Rachel...
...joined by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center. The groups argued that immigration laws enacted by Congress expressly state that a person is ineligible for...
...The court's decision would save lives, added Baher Azmy of the Center for Constitutional Rights, which joined the ACLU in the lawsuit. “The court correctly decided that decades of US asylum law...
...The American Civil Liberties Union, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Center for Constitutional Rights have challenged the policy, saying it violates domestic and international law and the...
...“The court recognized, as it did with the first asylum ban, that the Trump administration was attempting an unlawful end run around asylum protections enacted by Congress,” said Lee Gelernt, the A...
...The case against the federal government was brought by the ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Center for Constitutional Rights. “The court recognized, as it did with the first asylum...
July 24, 2019, San Francisco — This evening, a federal court blocked a new Trump administration asylum ban that categorically denied asylum to anyone at the southern border who had transited through...
