ACLU demands Trump for denying asylum on southern border

Immigrant defenders say that prohibiting access to asylum on the border endangers migrants fleeing the war, which is why they sued the US government.

Immigrant defenders sued the United States government on Monday for prohibiting access to asylum on the southern border, claiming that these restrictions are illegal and endanger people fleeing war and persecution.

The decision of the US government, detailed in one of the Immigration -related executive orders President Donald Trump, is “as illegal as unprecedented,” the groups said in a federal court in Washington.

“The government is doing just what Congress by Statute decreed that the United States should not do. He is returning to asylum applicants – not only to single adults, but also to families – to countries where they face persecution or torture, without allowing them to invoke the protections that Congress has provided, ”the lawyers wrote.

The ACLU filed the lawsuit on behalf of the Florence project, based in Arizona, the Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center (Las Américas Immigrant Defense Center), based in El Paso, and Raices, based in Texas.

In an executive order, Trump declared that the situation on the southern border constitutes an invasion and that “suspended the physical entry” of migrants until he decides that such invasion is over.

The executive order also suspended the possibility that migrants request asylum.

It was the last blow to the access to the asylum that began during the government of Joe Biden, which severely limited the capacity of the people who entered the country among the official border crossings to qualify for asylum. But they also had a system by which 1,450 people a day could schedule an appointment at an official crossing with Mexico to seek protection in America.

Trump ended that program on his first day in office.

Activists say that the right to request asylum is enshrined in the country's immigration law, and that denying migrants that right makes serious danger to people fleeing war or persecution.

Critics have said that relatively few people who come to the United States in search of asylum qualify to receive it and take years for overloaded immigration courts to reach a determination on such applications.