Trump Asylum Ban Blocked By Ninth Circuit

[ancianita]

Though it should be, this hasn't hit mainstream media yet, so it can't be posted in LBN.

Southern Poverty Law Center won the ruling.
https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/3.5.2020_ca9_order_lifting_stay.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3nvZDPZ1DM3M4edi86A0gVIzOQis2shjwtmTWh_-AXUeI5qchInWD61uQ


https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/trump-asylum-ban-blocked

March 5, 2020, San Francisco – A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel today blocked the Trump administration’s asylum transit ban from being applied to thousands of asylum seekers who were unlawfully prevented from accessing the U.S. asylum process before the ban was implemented.

The decision lifts a prior administrative stay of the district court’s preliminary injunction. That injunction prohibits the government from applying the asylum ban to those who had been illegally metered before the ban went into effect. The Ninth Circuit found that the government failed to demonstrate that it would suffer irreparable harm if the injunction were to go into effect while the Ninth Circuit reviews the merits. The court also found that the government is unlikely to succeed in that appeal—that is, it is unlikely to demonstrate it had no duty to grant access to the asylum process to individuals metered prior to the implementation of the asylum ban.

The case is Al Otro Lado v. Wolf, a class action lawsuit brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Center for Constitutional Rights, American Immigration Council, and Mayer Brown LLP on behalf of individual asylum seekers and the legal services organization Al Otro Lado (AOL).

“Today’s order will protect the lives of asylum seekers who were forced to endure extreme hardship while waiting in dangerous border cities for months for their chance to seek asylum in the United States,” said Erika Pinheiro, AOL Director of Litigation and Policy. “These asylum seekers have a deep commitment to following our laws in seeking protection, and we are relieved to see that their decision to follow our government’s instructions to wait in Mexico will not prejudice their chances for relief. ...

Great news! But justice is slow.

[jimfields33]

1. Cornovirus needs handled.

Can you imagine the refugees coming here and getting the virus. That’d be the last thing they’d need.

[ancianita]

2. Yes, it does, but not as an excuse for not adhering to law. Yet, "All men are created equal."

I can imagine, but the law should recognize their rights to decide how they die -- which country is their best bet. Sure death at home, or possible life, liberty, etc., in America.