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Ruling by Attorney General Barr means thousands more migrants may wait months in detention


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2019 Apr 16, 7:31pm   697 views  4 comments

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A ruling by Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday means certain migrants seeking asylum will not be released on bond but instead will stay in detention.

WASHINGTON, DC — Attorney General William Barr weighed in on an immigration case on Tuesday, establishing a new precedent that could affect thousands of migrants at the southwest border seeking asylum in the U.S.

In his decision, Barr said that asylum seekers who begin in expedited removal, in which they are not given the right to see a judge, and are then transferred to full removal proceedings, in which they wait to make their case before a judge, should not be released on bond. It means that thousands of asylum seekers who once would have been out on bond and living in the U.S. while awaiting a decision on their status will now be kept in detention centers, where the wait times are climbing from months to a year.

"This ruling gives [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] the legal authority to detain all of these people indefinitely," said Sarah Pierce, a policy analyst with the Migration Policy Institute, an immigration think tank. "That's if they have the capacity. So I think the actual effect of this ruling will be severely limited by ICE's capacity."

Due to the limited capacity, Barr said his decision should go into effect in 90 days in order to give ICE time to build bed space.

Michael Tan, an attorney for the ACLU, said his organization and others are preparing to sue the Trump administration over the new policy.

“The attorney general's decision is the latest attempt by this administration to punish asylum seekers for seeking refuge in the United States by locking them up in immigration prisons,” said Tan. “But the Constitution does not allow the government to incarcerate asylum seekers without basic due process. We'll see the administration in court.”

Under U.S. law, the attorney general has the right to overturn the decisions of immigration judges and establish sweeping new precedents, such as this.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/ruling-attorney-general-barr-means-thousands-more-migrants-may-wait-n995246

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1   RWSGFY   2019 Apr 16, 8:02pm  

Why not do what Australia does with their "asylum seeking" and stash them on some Pacific island? Gitmo would work too.
2   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Apr 17, 9:22am  

I like Wake Island.
3   RC2006   2019 Apr 17, 9:36am  

Load them in containers for cargo planes to parachute them back to the jungle.
4   GNL   2019 Apr 17, 10:05am  

HEYYOU says
Why isn't Barr & the law enforcement agencies deporting all the illegals that are raping,murdering & pillaging America,there are only millions?

Because Republicans HATE AMERICA!

Do Democrats LOVE AMERICA?

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