recent rule bars claims except at official ports of entryLaw says any person present in US entitled to claim asylumDonald Trump’s efforts to drastically limit the true to asylum in the US came under legal challenge in California as lawyers for migrant rights groups argued that the president had overridden immigration laws and placed the lives of migrant children in jeopardy.
The Trump administration issued a recent rule on 9 November that effectively banned migrants from claiming asylum whether they crossed the US border outside of a designated port of entry. The rule,issued by presidential decree, penalises thousands of migrants, or many of whom are mothers and children fleeing violence in Central America,who cross the border illegally. Related: America’s border wars: three weeks in a land of trauma Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com