Jan. 29, 2021:
Two years ago today, the Trump administration subjected the first migrant to a callous and unlawful policy that risks asylum seekers lives by forcing them to wait in
Mexico for their
U.S. immigration court hearings, stranded in border towns under life-threatening conditions.
Stuck there, families sleep in tents that do little to protect them from the elements or crime. Others crowd together in grimy streets without blankets or pillows amidst this humanitarian crisis. Parents clutch their children tightly out of fear they could be kidnapped.
The Trump administration officially implemented the Migrant Protection Protocols, better known as the Remain in
SCOTUS should overturn the ‘return to Mexico’ policy, ABA says in amicus brief
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The Trump administration s remain in Mexico policy undermines asylum-seekers right to counsel, due process and ethical standards under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the ABA told the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday.
Chad F. Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security et al., v. Innovation Law Lab et al., the ABA noted that only 7% of individuals affected by the policy, officially known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, are represented by counsel. In citing government data, the association said 60% of immigrants in the United States have counsel.
WASHINGTON - Human Rights First, the National Immigration Law Center (“NILC”), and Sidley Austin LLP today filed an amicus curiae friend of the court brief at the U.S. Supreme Court in a case challenging the so-called Migrant Protection Protocols (“MPP”), or “Remain in Mexico” policy.
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