A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit voted unanimously on Friday to suspend an order issued earlier in the day to block a central pillar of the Trump administration’s policy that requires asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases end in the US, AP reported.
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The three judge panel told the government that present written arguments before the end of Monday and that the plaintiffs respond before the end of Tuesday.
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The Department of Justice said that at least 25,000 asylum seekers subject to the policy are currently waiting in Mexico and expressed “massive and irreparable concerns of national public security security.”
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Government lawyers said immigration attorneys had begun demanding that asylum seekers be allowed to remain in the United States, and one insisted that 1,000 people be allowed into one of the border stations.
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“The reestablishment of the court order by the Court causes significant and irreparable damage to the United States public and the government, to border security, public safety, public health and diplomatic relations,” the Department’s lawyers wrote. of Justice.
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Customs and Border Protection had already begun to stop processing people under politics.
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The setback that the government had received hours earlier from the panel of three judges of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit may be temporary if the administration of President Donald Trump appeals to the Supreme Court of the United States, which has sided by Trump on immigration and border security policies.
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Chad Wolf, the interim secretary of National Security, said he was working with the Department of Justice to “quickly appeal this inexplicable decision.”
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The previous ruling
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals had temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s program known Friday as Remain in Mexico or MPP, which forces asylum seekers to remain in that country waiting for their cases to be advanced in immigration courts at the border.
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Trump’s controversial program has returned more than 50,000 migrants to Mexico and it is believed that there are another 30,000 who are still waiting to present their cases in the border checkpoints. There are no official figures on the number of procedures accepted and rejected.
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A report from the Information and Access Center for Transactional Records (TRAC) of Syracuse University, warned a few months ago that only 1.2% of migrants who ask for asylum and are returned to Mexico You have access to a lawyer to defend your cases.
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which filed this legal process, has denounced that the Trump administration is trying to overturn asylum laws, making the process increasingly complicated. He claims that due to his tough initiatives contained in his “zero tolerance” policy, thousands of people now live in makeshift camps, shelters and warehouses, at the mercy of drug cartels.
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“It has established policy changes aimed at its racist goal of limiting access to migrants to the United States,” said Shaw Drake, ACLU political advisor, in a video that the organization published at the end of 2019.
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“Mexico is complicit”
This week, Congresswoman from El Paso (Texas), Veronica Escobar, He denounced that Mexico “is an accomplice” of the Trump administration by receiving thousands of asylum seekers in dangerous cities along its northern border sent by the United States while advancing their asylum cases in that country.
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“I want to say very clearly and firmly that Mexico is an accomplice,” Escobar said in statements to the media in front of the Capitol when referring to the Trump administration program known as Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP)
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Escobar’s complaint coincides with the criticisms that human rights organizations have repeatedly made since the program was established a year ago that they believe that, with the sending to dangerous cities of Mexico of tens of thousands of asylum seekers, they are taking out “massive human rights abuses”, an idea that supports the hundreds of reports of kidnappings, rapes, abductions, torture and other violent attacks.
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Who come from the Northern Triangle of Central America they flee from contexts of violence and extreme poverty. Homicide figures place their capitals as some of the most dangerous in the region.
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The Trump administration, however, has rejected criticism and the interim commissioner of the Office of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Mark Morgan, came to classify allegations of violence in Mexico against asylum seekers as “anecdotes”.
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