...The restriction is not the first proposed by the administration. An earlier attempt that would have denied asylum to anyone crossing the border outside of a legal port of entry was blocked in...
... We’ll have more coverage of Janna Jihad’s tour in days to come. She will speak at the Capitol on July 24th, along with Maria LaHood of Center for Constitutional Rights, sponsored by American...
...But survivors of clergy sexual abuse have criticized what they regard as foot-dragging at the Vatican, and the UN has been open to their petitions. “Rape and torture are crimes around the entire...
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...
...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...
...“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 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'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...
...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 case came from a lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, which all welcomed Wednesday’s ruling. “The...