ACLU Sues to Stop Trump Policy on Jailing Asylum-Seekers
May 03, 2019 1:32 AM
SEATTLE —
The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups are again going to court to challenge the Trump administration, this time over its policy to bar detained asylum-seekers from asking a judge to grant them bond.
The American Civil Liberties Union, American Immigration Council and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project filed a class-action lawsuit over the policy in U.S. District Court in Seattle on Thursday.
U.S. Attorney General William Barr announced in mid-April that asylum-seekers who have shown they have a credible fear of returning to their country and are facing removal don't have the right to be released on bond by an immigration court judge while their cases are pending.
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