Judge halts government’s immigration detention policy
Source: San Antonio Express-News
Judge halts government’s immigration detention policy
By Jason Buch : February 20, 2015 : Updated: February 20, 2015 4:08pm
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., issued an order Friday that halts the Obama administration’s policy of holding women and children from Central America without bonds.
The lawsuit, brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and the national law firm Covington and Burling on behalf of detainees held in Karnes County, challenged whether U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement could have a blanket policy of detaining women and children from Central America without bond.
The government began the detention policy, citing national security threats, after tens of thousands of women and children from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras flooded across the border in South Texas last spring and summer.
The preliminary injunction by U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg orders the government to stop detaining “for the purpose of deterring future immigration to the United States” women and children from Central America who are seeking asylum in the U.S.
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