The ACLU sued the Trump administration because it had switched most of the possibilities according to asylum, a step that the immigration system thrown into the chaos on the southern border sowed and left tens of thousands in Mexico, which attempted to legally in the USA.
Lawyers representing three non -profit organizations that provide services for asylum seekers on the southern border were sufficient Men's suit On Monday at the district court for the District of Columbia, President Trump violated the congress laws unconstitutional and violated federal laws and international agreements that were intended to protect escape tracking.
Hours after swearing in Trump signed an executive order that explained an “invasion” on the southern borderEliminating the paths for the application for asylum for those at the border and the strict restriction of crossing the border.
The command was one in a series that drastically redesigned the immigration system and could change the national identity of America as a refuge for persecuted peoples.
Lawyers say that the administration itself eliminates the asylum protection sheath itself among the already in the country and refuses to those who should be granted the right to apply for an asylum. They argue that officials have communicated migrants that Asylum “does not exist”.
“The proclamation would mean that our entire asylum system can be eliminated if the president claims that we have entered the last two administrations by immigrants. “It's unprecedented and extreme.”
Asylum offers a way to citizenship for those who fear the persecution in their home country due to their breed, religion, nationality, social group or political views. And for decades it has been a license plate of the American immigration system. According to federal and international law, there is the right to asylum, regardless of how a person got on the US floor.
Trump says that he does his campaign promise to “seal” the boundaries well, and used military troops there to keep migrants from the intersection.
Trump stopped asylum access during his first term by using a law on public health and quoting the COVID-19 risk in order to quickly rule out migrants from the USA The latest executive order explains that “an invasion of the southern border is not completed” – despite the small number of arrival in recent months – and used this to justify the suspension of all entries.
In his executive ordinance, Trump appoints an immigration code of 1952, which enables the President to initiate the entry of a class of non -state members that are determined to “damage the interests of the United States”. According to the lawsuit, this rule has been used at least 90 times since 1981, but it has never had the right of people to apply for or received an asylum application.
Trump's executive commands had a broad impact, but the most immediate effects came on the southern border.
When the officials CBP One, a mobile asylum application that the bidges had expanded was eliminated, tens of thousands of appointments were canceled. The CBP One app allowed migrants to register for an appointment with border agents and legally enter them in the USA to apply for asylum. Between January 2023 and December 2024, dates planned with the app more than 936,500 people. According to the US -customs and border protection.
Immigration statistics show that 54,350 people were granted asylum in 2023, the latest available data. The largest group came from Afghanistan, followed by China and Venezuela, according to government data. These figures had increased steadily under the Biden administration.