12-19-2018, 06:54 PM
Today, another Trump administration immigration policy promoted by Sessions was ordered to be halted by a federal DC Circuit Judge.
The judge blocked several Trump administration policies that made it more difficult for victims of gang and domestic violence to seek asylum in the United States.
In a 107-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan wrote that the policies were “arbitrary and capricious and contrary to law” and ordered the government to cease their implementation.
The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by the ACLU and Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, representing 12 adults and children who had sought asylum in the United States because they said they were sexually abused, beat and kidnapped in their home countries.
Each was denied asylum — even though asylum officers felt their accounts were sincere, according to the ruling — based on the new policies restricting who qualifies. Some already had been removed, though Sullivan decreed they should be brought back to the United States and allowed to make their case again.
Sullivan is the same judge who declined to sentence former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn to a sentence of no-time-to-be-served yesterday; the same no-nonsense judge who was appointed by two Republican and one Democrat President and praised by FOX New's Jeanine Pirro.
Ref: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nat...06f68ab26e
The judge blocked several Trump administration policies that made it more difficult for victims of gang and domestic violence to seek asylum in the United States.
In a 107-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan wrote that the policies were “arbitrary and capricious and contrary to law” and ordered the government to cease their implementation.
The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by the ACLU and Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, representing 12 adults and children who had sought asylum in the United States because they said they were sexually abused, beat and kidnapped in their home countries.
Each was denied asylum — even though asylum officers felt their accounts were sincere, according to the ruling — based on the new policies restricting who qualifies. Some already had been removed, though Sullivan decreed they should be brought back to the United States and allowed to make their case again.
Sullivan is the same judge who declined to sentence former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn to a sentence of no-time-to-be-served yesterday; the same no-nonsense judge who was appointed by two Republican and one Democrat President and praised by FOX New's Jeanine Pirro.
Ref: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nat...06f68ab26e