ACLU Challenges Trump Administration’s New Asylum Rules

The American Civil Liberties Union, coming fresh off a victory over the Trump administration’s family separation policy, is once again filing a lawsuit against the government for deliberately preventing thousands of immigrants from seeking asylum. The complaint, filed on behalf of 12 immigrants from Central American countries, seeks to put a stop to the government’s new screening policies and hopes to persuade the judge that the administration is committing asylum fraud.  According to the ACLU, the Department of Homeland Security is manipulating the fast-track removal system, created under President Clinton in 1996, in order to block worthy asylum seekers from getting a full hearing in immigration court. They claim that this change in policy violates numerous laws and statutes, not to mention the separation-of-powers principles outlined in the Constitution. In order to successfully apply for asylum, migrants have to demonstrate a fear of persecution in their…

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