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WHO WE'RE SUING (AND WHY)
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Council
Sues
to
Learn
More
About
Immigration
Courts
Unpredictably
Accelerating
Immigrants’
Trials
This
month,
the
Council
and
the
Capital
Area
Immigrants’
Rights
Coalition
(CAIR)
filed
a
lawsuit
against
the
Executive
Office
for
Immigration
Review
(EOIR)
to
learn
more
about
how
immigration
courts
accelerate

Court
rulings
have
held
that
refusal
to
process
noncitizens
arriving
in
the
United
States
seeking
asylum
is
unlawful.
Yet,
media
reports
published
since
the
implementation
of
the
CBP
One
requirement
suggest
that
thousands
of
vulnerable
noncitizens
are
awaiting
processing
because
they
have
not
been
able
to
schedule
an
inspection
appointment
via
CBP
One.


The
regulation
that
established
the
CBP
One
requirement,
and
its
preamble,
makes
clear
that
CBP
officers
must
allow
asylum
seekers
to
access
inspection
and
processing,
even
if
they
don’t
have
an
appointment–only
later
in
the
process
are
asylum
adjudicators
supposed
determine
whether
migrants
are
eligible
for
asylum.


The
American
Immigration
Council
and
the
Center
for
Gender
and
Refugee
Studies
filed
a
FOIA
to
find
out
more
about
these
practices
related
to
turning
away
asylum
seekers
at
the
border
to
better
understand
whether
the
agency
is
using
CBP
One
to
limit
asylum
seekers’
access
to
ports
of
entry.


The
records
they
seek
relate
to
1)
CBP’s
procedures
on
how
to
manage
noncitizens
who
approach
ports
of
entry
without
CBP
One
appointments;
2)
CBP’s
continued
use
of
metering
of
noncitizens
and
its
capacity
to
process
individuals;
3)
communications
between
CBP
officers
and
Mexican
officials
regarding
immigrants’
access
to
U.S.
ports
of
entry;
and
4)
data
on
the
number
of
noncitizens
processed
by
CBP
at
southern
border
ports
of
entry
with
and
without
CBP
One
appointments.


Read
more:
Council
Seeks
Records
on
CBP’s
Treatment
of
Migrants
at
the
U.S.-Mexico
Border
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