President Trump plans to seal off the U.S-Mexico border to migrants — a move that would allow the administration to quickly deport asylum-seekers and other migrants who cross the border illegally without due process.
to all"non-essential" traffic, following earlier restrictions imposed by the Trump administration on travel from Europe and China.
U.S. Immigration and Citizenship Services, the agency in charge of processing green card and citizenship applications as well as conducting asylum interviews, is closing its field offices to the public. Immigrants fighting deportation are having their cases postponed as some immigration courts are limiting dockets and others are closing. Refugee resettlement is temporarily suspended as well, according to the United Nations, because of the Coronavirus pandemic.
"President Trump has been falsely scapegoating immigrant communities in the name of public safety since he came into office," said Michelle Brané at the Women's Refugee Commission."This rule would unquestionably violate both domestic and international law and is an abdication of our moral responsibility to protect vulnerable people."
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