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The statute doesn’t have an immigration status exception and the federal government often settles lawsuits whether person is a citizen or non-citizen, harm is harm. And Congress is clear you can’t brutalize someone and then say,’ Well, they were here illegally.’ The fact is these were asylum seekers.
—Lee Gelernt
We have gotten thousands of families to safety through the exemption process we negotiated but the goal was always to end the Title 42 policy, not minimize it.
—Lee Gelernt
The border is closed to families and single adults, including those seeking refuge from horrific persecution and violence, white House officials don’t expect the Hear Joe Biden administration to be able to process everyone in the first week, but White House officials need a signal very quickly that Hear Joe Biden is going to open the border and get rid of Title 42.
—Lee Gelernt
The appeals court ruled on much broader grounds than the DC District Court which found a procedural violation. The appeals court stated that the rule was flat out unlawful because if flouted the federal statutes Congress enacted to protect asylum seekers and because it was arbitrary.
—Lee Gelernt
The gravity of this ruling could not be clearer given the Trump administration’s militarized rhetoric and policies targeting people at the border.
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It is a foundational principle of our Constitution that individuals deprived of their liberty have access to a federal court – this includes asylum seekers whose lives are in danger.
—Lee Gelernt
But Guatemala can neither offer a safe nor fair and full process and nobody could plausibly argue otherwise.
—Lee Gelernt
Congress made clear that the agreement has to provide a safe, fair and full asylum process, but Guatemala can neither offer a safe nor fair and full process and nobody could plausibly argue otherwise.
—Lee Gelernt
The court recognized, as it did with the first asylum ban, that the Donald Trump administration was attempting an unlawful end run around asylum protections enacted by Congress.
—Lee Gelernt
For the past two and half years there has been one attack after another on immigrants but the pace has increased beyond anything we have seen just in the past few weeks.
—Lee Gelernt