... Angelo Guisado is a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights: “The statute governing who can apply for asylum and where, 8 U.S. Code § 1158 , is very clear that an individual who...
..But even as it tells asylum-seekers they must go to a port of entry, the Trump administration has been turning them away from these very same ports for months, claiming that they are “at capacity...
...The company was in the process of trying to use the controversial doctrine of eminent domain to “expropriate” the land, which allows the government to seize land for the public good. But according...
...Migrant Justice members are named as plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which includes the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Vermont, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the National Center for...
In the latest pushback against President Trump’s attack on immigrants rights, a federal judge in California has temporarily halted Trump’s asylum ban, which attempted to deny asylum to anyone...
... An amended complaint filed last month in the Al Otro Lado case alleges that this September and October, Mexican immigration officials forced four of the plaintiffs off a pedestrian bridge at the...
...The request was made by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights, who took legal action after President Donald Trump issued the ban this month in response to the...
...“Individuals are entitled to asylum if they cross between ports of entry,” said Baher Azmy, a lawyer for the Center for Constitutional Rights, which sued the government alongside the American...
November 20, 2018, San Francisco — A federal court temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s new asylum ban. The Center for Constitutional Rights, Civil Liberties Union, and Southern Poverty Law...
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