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In a legal setback for the Trump administration's immigration policies, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ruled that the government may not arbitrarily detain people seeking asylum.
The ruling comes in a case challenging the administration's policy of detaining people even after they have passed a credible fear interview and await a hearing on their asylum claim.
The lead plaintiff in the case is a teacher from Haiti, Ansly Damus, who has been confined in Ohio for more than a year-and-a-half. He fled his homeland fearing violence and political persecution and asked for asylum in the United States. An immigration judge granted him asylum not just once, but twice. But Damus remains locked up indefinitely as the government appeals those decisions.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, in his 38-page opinion, said that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement violated its own procedures by not granting Damus release under what's known as humanitarian parole.
"This Opinion does no more than hold the Government accountable to its own policy, which recently has been honored more in the breach than the observance. Having extended the safeguards of the Parole Directive to asylum seekers, ICE must now ensure that such protections are realized," Judge Boasberg wrote.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 04 2018, @05:44PM (2 children)
I wish I could peak into an alternate reality where a Democrat POTUS bowed to arab oil barons, said the Russians poop rainbows and Putin is the best thing since Trump, and buddied up to North Korea.
I would REALLY like to see the reactions of the RWNJs around here, they'd be losing their collective shit SO HARD! Hatred is a powerful and scary thing, and that is all that fuels these people into blind faith in a broken system.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 04 2018, @10:33PM (1 child)
Democrats are just as pro-establishment, even while they hate it, as the Republicans are. I've been arguing constantly with my family over this for the past 2+ years (former 8 was mostly with republican family members hating on obama every excuse they got.) This time around the arguements are both right and left and both call you an apologist for the other when you say something they don't agree with.
I have been feeling quietly ashamed of american for almost two decades now, and it is starting to less quiet even as I grow more ashamed. Hopefully my opportunity to emigrate will happen soon and a better future found in the wider world. Because it isn't happening here, and at the rate it is going, there are going to be fewer places to escape to, while the going is still good.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 04 2018, @11:22PM
Fair enough, but my post wasnt meant as pro democrat just calling out the RWNJs round here.