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We are deeply disappointed for all the desperate asylum seekers who will continue to suffer because of Title 42, but we will continue fighting to eventually end the policy.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
No court has accepted the government’s view that the public health laws can override our domestic and international obligations, we hope the Biden administration will now accept this appeals court ruling and end Title 42 across the board with no further litigation.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The statute doesn't have an immigration status exception and the federal government often settles lawsuits whether person is a citizen or non-citizen, harm is harm. And Congress is clear you can't brutalize someone and then say,' Well, they were here illegally.' The fact is these were asylum seekers.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We have gotten thousands of families to safety through the exemption process we negotiated but the goal was always to end the Title 42 policy, not minimize it.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The border is closed to families and single adults, including those seeking refuge from horrific persecution and violence, white House officials don't expect the Hear Joe Biden administration to be able to process everyone in the first week, but White House officials need a signal very quickly that Hear Joe Biden is going to open the border and get rid of Title 42.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The appeals court ruled on much broader grounds than the DC District Court which found a procedural violation. The appeals court stated that the rule was flat out unlawful because if flouted the federal statutes Congress enacted to protect asylum seekers and because it was arbitrary.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The gravity of this ruling could not be clearer given the Trump administration's militarized rhetoric and policies targeting people at the border.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It is a foundational principle of our Constitution that individuals deprived of their liberty have access to a federal court - this includes asylum seekers whose lives are in danger.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
But Guatemala can neither offer a safe nor fair and full process and nobody could plausibly argue otherwise.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Congress made clear that the agreement has to provide a safe, fair and full asylum process, but Guatemala can neither offer a safe nor fair and full process and nobody could plausibly argue otherwise.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The court recognized, as it did with the first asylum ban, that the Donald Trump administration was attempting an unlawful end run around asylum protections enacted by Congress.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
For the past two and half years there has been one attack after another on immigrants but the pace has increased beyond anything we have seen just in the past few weeks.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The Trump administration is trying to unilaterally reverse our country's legal and moral commitment to protect those fleeing danger. This new rule is patently unlawful and we will sue swiftly.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The government was able to quickly gather resources to tear these children away from their families and now they need to gather the resources to fix the damage.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The court made clear that potentially thousands of children's lives are at stake and that the Trump administration can not simply ignore the devastation it has caused.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
This decision reaffirms the Constitution's foundational principle that individuals deprived of their liberty must have access to a federal court.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It will mean that thousands of current and future noncitizens will not be sent back to potential death without a federal court looking at their case, the historical and practical importance of this ruling cannot be overstated. This decision reaffirms the Constitutions foundational principle that individuals deprived of their liberty must have access to a federal court.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
A case always takes into account further developments, this one is a bombshell that no one could've really anticipated.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
All that's to say that it's been effective on the ground but it's been very slow.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
A lot of what I saw this week is very on the ground and going to communities and talking to the local faith leaders -- or in indigenous communities, there's what's called a community leader -- to ask for permission to go in and ask around.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
What we have seen on the phone calls, but especially when I was there this week, is that the parents feel it is too dangerous for the child to come back, i mean, we've had some very difficult conversations with the parent... where the parent is saying as much as they ultimately want to be with the child, as heartbreaking as it is, that they feel like it's too dangerous for the child to come back.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
There were times we were not able to visit certain communities because the gangs had a curfew they had put on anyone going out at night, all that's to say that it's been effective on the ground but it's been very slow.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
It doesn't matter what the facilities look like. The trauma is from separating the child from the parent.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
If in fact 57 children have been reunited because of the lawsuit, we could not be more happy for those families, but make no mistake about it: the government missed the deadline even for these 57 children.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
It is very troubling that there are children and parents who are not in some kind of government tracking system.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
When the government wants to marshal its resources to separate families, it has shown that it can do it quickly and efficiently, but when told to reunite families, it somehow finds it too difficult and cumbersome to accomplish.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Taking a child away from their parent and interfering with the basic constitutional right to family unity, that's about the most draconian thing you can do and it needs the most compelling reason possible, deterrence is a policy measure that uses these children as pawns and violates the basic fundamental notion of what's in the child's best interest.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
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