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December 19, 2019 T: 582-7800 www.arubatoday.com facebook.com/arubatoday instagram.com/arubatoday
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Lawsuit says immigration courts are now deportation machines By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The immigration court system under the Trump administration has become a “deportation machine,” two groups said in a lawsuit filed in federal court on Wednesday. The lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center in Washington, D.C., and Innovation Law Lab of Portland, Oregon, said that instead of being fair and impartial, judges in immigration courts answer to Attorney General Robert Barr and are pushed to deny applications for asylum. “The immigration courts make life-and-death decisions every day: vulnerable people seeking asylum in the United States depend on a functioning court system to protect them from persecution, torture, and death. Continued on Page 2
In this Sept. 17, 2019, file photo, is the Migration Protection Protocols Immigration Hearing Facility, a new tent court facility made up of tents and portable pods along the Rio Grande in Laredo, Texas. Associated Press