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Your weekly summary from the Council
LATEST ANALYSIS
FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW
- The Washington Post revealed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement circumvented restrictions on the use of charter flights to bring ICE agents to Washington, D.C. for racial justice protests. To do so, the agency had to include detainees on the same plane, despite cautions to avoid transferring populations during the pandemic. The transfer led to a massive outbreak of COVID-19 at the Virginia detention center and resulted in at least one death.
ICE agents have no place at domestic protests, and no one should be kept in detention since social distancing isn’t possible. ICE should use its broad authority to parole and release people on alternatives to detention while their immigration court proceedings continue.
Read more: The Impact of COVID-19 on Noncitizens and Across the U.S. Immigration System
ACROSS THE NATION
Trump's policy of turning back asylum seekers at the border should be permanently blocked. The American Immigration Council and our partners asked a judge to do just that by filing a motion for summary judgment in our litigation.
Read more: Challenging Customs and Border Protection's Unlawful Practice of Turning Away Asylum Seekers
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“Summary judgment is a monumental step in our challenge to the Trump administration’s policy of turning back asylum seekers at our southern border. The motion explains how the government sought to do through policy what the law does not allow: to deny those in need of protection access to the U.S. asylum process.”
– Karolina Walters, staff attorney at the American Immigration Council.
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