District Judge Opposes Trump – Prevents Immigrant Family Deportation Implementation

A district judge in the United States yesterday, Thursday, prevented the deportation of families immigrants who had been arrested following an order from his former government Donald Trump while crossing the US-Mexico border at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The order was issued in March 2020 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States, which in turn cited the need to limit the spread of the coronavirus.

Judge Emmett Sullivan of the District Court of the District of Columbia ruled that the public health law on which this policy is based does not allow the expulsion of immigrants. The deportation of asylum seekers deprives them of “the opportunity to seek humanitarian benefits” to which they are entitled under immigration law, according to a written ruling by the judge.

Sullivan’s trial will take effect in 14 days.

The US Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The judge’s ruling applies only to families and not to individual migrants, who represent the largest number of migrants detained at the border.

US authorities arrest more than 195,000 migrants at Mexico border in August

The judge’s ruling comes at a time when Democratic President Joe Biden is coming under pressure from Republicans as border arrests rise to a 20-year high.

U.S. authorities arrested more than 195,000 migrants at the Mexican border in August, according to government figures released Wednesday. According to an eyewitness, thousands of people are waiting under the International Bridge this week, which connects Del Rio, Texas, with the city of Ciudad Acunia in Mexico.

Immigrants have set up a makeshift camp, with some basic services to deal with the high temperatures, creating a state of emergency for President Biden. Food and water are not enough, about 20 migrants told Reuters, with temperatures reaching 37 degrees Celsius.

Immigrants come mainly from Haiti, while there are also immigrants from Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.

Biden is coming under increasing pressure from some health experts, immigrant supporters and members of the Democratic Party to stop implementing the presidential mandate.

President Biden in February excluded unaccompanied children from the deportation policy, and his government is enforcing it on fewer immigrant families detained at the border.

In August, the Biden government deported about 19% of the families arrested at the border.

Human rights groups and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have said that refugees being deported are facing violence and abductions in northern Mexico.

“President Biden should have stopped this violent and illegal policy a long time ago and the court ruled in its favor today,” said Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU (American Policy Association) program. Freedoms) to protect the rights of migrants.