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SPLC APPLAUDS END OF TITLE 42 POLICY
An Important Step in Creating a Just & Humane Immigration System
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Asylum Seekers Seek Emergency Relief As Battle Over “Remain in Mexico” Policy Continues
Los Angeles, CA – Six asylum seekers subjected to the “Remain in Mexico” policy are seeking an emergency order from a federal court allowing them to return to the United States to pursue their claims for asylum and related relief. Each of the individuals received a final order of removal as a result of the…
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SPLC Denounces Biden Administration Plan to Restart “Remain in Mexico”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Melissa Crow, senior supervising attorney with the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project, responding to the Biden administration’s plan to reinstate the “Remain in Mexico” policy next month. The announcement follows an August decision by the U.S. Supreme Court refusing to stay a…
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BREAKING: Court Says Turnbacks of Tens of Thousands of Asylum Seekers Are Unlawful
San Diego, CA – A federal judge declared unlawful the U.S. government’s turnbacks of asylum seekers arriving at ports of entry along the U.S southern border. The court ruled that the United States is required by law to inspect and process asylum seekers when they present themselves at ports of entry, and condemned the practice…
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Immigrant Rights Advocates Urge Court to Permanently End Trump-Era Policy that Turned Back Tens of Thousands of Asylum Seekers
San Diego, CA – Immigrant rights advocates released the following statement after presenting oral arguments before U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant of the Southern District of California, where they urged the court to declare unlawful and permanently end the Trump-era turnback policy. Under the policy, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the country’s largest federal…
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SPLC: Our Fight For Rights of Asylum Seekers Continues Despite Supreme Court’s Ruling on “Remain in Mexico”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Melissa Crow, senior supervising attorney with the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project, about the U.S. Supreme Court’s denial of a stay of the district court injunction ordering the federal government to reinstate the draconian “Remain in Mexico” policy. “Today’s ruling will…
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Rights Advocates Seek Relief for Thousands of Asylum Seekers Left Behind by Biden Administration Wind-down of Remain in Mexico Policy
Los Angeles, CA – Immigration advocates filed an amended complaint in a class action lawsuit challenging the continuing effects of the “Remain in Mexico” policy on asylum-seeking individuals who remain stranded outside the United States and legal service providers seeking to represent them. Despite formally ending the policy, the Biden administration’s “wind-down” process has left…
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Immigrant Rights Advocates Ask Court to Block Trump Administration Attempt to Thwart Court Order
SAN DIEGO — Immigrant rights advocates moved for a temporary restraining order to block the Trump administration’s latest attempt to circumvent an earlier court order prohibiting the government from applying an asylum ban to people who had to wait in Mexico because U.S. Customs and Border artificially limited the number of asylum seekers it would…
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Amicus Briefs Filed in Support of Challenge to Trump Administration Policy That Denies Asylum Seekers Safety & Legal Rights
Urge Court to Grant Plaintiffs’ Preliminary Injunction Motion
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Immigrant Rights Advocates Ask Court to Permanently Block Trump Policy Turning Back Asylum Seekers
Motion emphasizes that asylum seekers have been seriously injured, raped, and even killed after CBP officials turned them back at U.S. border.