The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other groups sued President Joe Biden’s administration on May 11, alleging the government’s revival of Trump-era restrictions on asylum are not legal.
The new restrictions are illegal in part because they force non-Mexican asylum seekers to enter the United States at ports of entry, the groups said in a complaint filed in federal court in California.
“The rule challenged here attempts to resuscitate and combine the illegal features of the two previous asylum bans that this Court and the Ninth Circuit found to be unlawful,” plaintiffs stated. “This new rule is no less illegal or harmful. It will effectively eliminate asylum for nearly all non-Mexican asylum seekers who enter between designated ports of entry, and even for those who present at a port without first securing an appointment.”…