Immigrant rights groups asked a U.S. court on Thursday to reverse a Trump admini...
FILE PHOTO: A person looks through the border wall towards the United States at Border Field State Park in San Diego, California, U.S. November 20, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
The groups, which include the American Civil Liberties Union, say an April 16 decision by U.S. Attorney General William Barr violates the asylum seekers’ rights under U.S. law and puts thousands of people at risk of being detained for months or years while they wait for their cases to work their way through a backlogged immigration court system.
The court challenge came in the form of an amended complaint to an existing lawsuit. Earlier in April, U.S. federal judge Marsha Pechman had ordered the U.S. government to provide faster bond hearings to asylum seekers who pass their initial screenings.
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