asylum seekers

Sister Norma Pimentel made a public plea July 6 to keep an eye on the plight of asylum-seekers during the coronavirus pandemic.

A federal judge ruled late June 30 the Trump administration unlawfully implemented its 2019 policy to turn away asylum-seekers if they don’t first seek protection in countries along their way to the United States.

In a 7-2 decision June 25, 2020, the Supreme Court ruled that immigrants whose requests for asylum were rejected may not contest in federal court.

2019 was a busy year for the U.S. Supreme Court.

The executive director of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, known as CLINIC, told U.S. Catholic bishops Nov. 13 that the government is violating international and U.S. law when it denies asylum-seekers at the border entry into the U.S.

The Supreme Court issued an unsigned order late Sept. 11, 2019, that will temporarily allow the Trump administration to enforce its new rule preventing many Central American migrants from seeking asylum in the United States, while the legal battle over this issue continues to work its way through the courts.

President Donald Trump’s appointment of Ken Cuccinelli to a top immigration position violated federal law and therefore certain actions undertaken by his office are not legally valid, a federal lawsuit argues.

Departures have come despite rhetoric toward migrants from U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration’s attempts to discourage asylum-seekers and turn the countries to the south of the U.S.-Mexico border into filters for impeding the path of migrants.