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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: 1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday July 04 2018, @07:42PM (3 children)
Yeah, Even Europe, the shining example of open-borders experiments, is going to go full-14/88 in deporting their troublesome migrants, scuttling the NGOs' ships, and putting those migrants in camps in North Africa.
Makes me wonder if the experiment was an inoculation the whole time -- an injection that makes you sick up-front, but conditions your body to reject the pathogens in the future. We have tried to let the savages join civilization and integrate in exchange for safety and comfort, and they have failed spectacularly. Back to the depths of the Underworld to which the vermin belong!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 04 2018, @07:44PM
How's the weather down there?
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by jmorris on Wednesday July 04 2018, @07:51PM (1 child)
Nah, the Globalists really thought they could just ram this policy onto us and we would be overwhelmed and past the point where we could stop it before enough people woke up to the danger enough to be willing to be called a racist for objecting. Thankfully their pets were just a little too violent for people to stay asleep that long. They should have left out the Muslims and stuck to Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, India, etc. for aliens to 'enrich' Europe with. Looks like Europe is going to wake up in time to save itself. America's fate is still more doubtful because we already have such a large percentage of invaders already.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 04 2018, @08:07PM
"this policy"? You mean the policy that was already in place saying they should release the asylum seeker after a review finding in his favor? Oh yeah, that globalist conspiracy is super scary!! Seems that straw man arguments are all you can fight against, apropos.