U.S. Limits on Migrant Asylum Protections Challenged by ACLU
- Group worries deported migrants will be raped, beaten, killed
- Justice Department pledges to enforce domestic violence laws
Jeff Sessions in Washington, D.C., U.S., on April 25.
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Two civil rights’ groups sued the Trump Administration claiming its deportation fast-track policies are gutting asylum protections for immigrants fleeing domestic and gang violence.
New policies announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions call for officers working with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to generally deny the claims of immigrants seeking asylum, calling their requests purely "personal," according to a complaint filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and Center for Gender & Refugee Studies in federal court in Washington.