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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 04 2018, @08:25PM (1 child)
Someone sells out your country to a foreign adversary, and you grant them bail. Someone shoots up a school or a church or a mall or a nightclub, and you grant them bail. As long as they are American. A foreigner? They are a danger to everything in America and you can barely raise your gun, and wave your flag, fast enough. But an American? They can kill as many as they want and your kind doesn't make a peep or lift a finger in protest.
To you a patriot is anyone who lets America be undermined or killed from within. But someone whose skin isn't as light as yours? Ban them, condemn their religion (until you find out its Christianity) and send them away (no matter where they were born) ... that is if your police don't kill them first.
The people who were here before you were darker than you. The people who are going to replace you are darker than you. You should flee while you can. Don't think your "alt right" will stop them. They come from countries where guerrillas and militias recruit members when they are children.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 05 2018, @06:47PM
Most of those types of people you mentioned don't get bail, as they are classified as dangerous or flight risks.