A Federal District Judge in California has issued a preliminary injunction to stop the Trump regime's new policy of denying asylum to immigrants who have passed through another country before reaching the U.S. border. Judge Jon Tigar issued the ruling yesterday after a Federal judge in Washington, D.C. allowed the Trump policy to proceed, indicating that the injunction would allow the issue to be adjudicated in a higher court.
Judge Tigar's ruling cited the danger immigrants from Central America faced while transversing Mexico:
"The judge said the policy could expose migrants to violence and abuse, deny their rights under international law and return them to countries they were fleeing. He cited the administration’s own court filings to argue that Mexico was unsafe." (our emphasis)One of the plaintiffs reacted to the injunction:
Melissa Crow, an attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center, said the decision was “an important victory for incredibly vulnerable individuals and families from besieged Central American countries seeking refuge in our country. We will continue to fight this draconian policy as well as the myriad of others through which the Trump administration continues to wage war on asylum-seekers and our nation’s asylum system,” Crow said.The fight goes on.
