Excerpt: "The courts make clear that Trump's policies go beyond the law."
Andrea Elena Castro, daughter of Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-TX, holds a U.S. flag during a Rally For Our Children event on May 31 to protest the 'zero tolerance' immigration policy that has led to the separation of families. (photo: Eric Gay/AP)
Judges Check Trump's Immigration Cruelty
21 December 18
The courts make clear that his policies go beyond the law.
day after a federal judge denounced the former Trump adviser Michael Flynn, at a sentencing hearing, for lying to F.B.I. agents, the judge had a similar message on Wednesday for former Attorney General Jeff Sessions: Follow the law. It was one of two court decisions this week making clear that the administration was overstepping its powers to restrict the granting of asylum.
The ruling on Wednesday involved then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s decision in June to bar immigrants from seeking asylum based on their fears of domestic violence and gangs, basically putting them on a fast track for deportation back to the dangers they had fled. Mr. Sessions had said that “the mere fact that a country may have problems effectively policing certain crimes” shouldn’t be grounds for asylum.
The judge, Emmet Sullivan of the Federal District Court in Washington, all but accused Mr. Sessions of taking the law into his own hands. By creating a system that categorically denied these claims, the judge wrote, “the Attorney General has failed to stay within the bounds of his statutory authority.”
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