NEW: Judge blocks Trump policy keeping asylum-seekers locked up
SEATTLE — A federal judge in Seattle on Tuesday blocked a Trump administration policy that would keep thousands of asylum-seekers locked up while they pursue their cases, saying the Constitution demands that such migrants have a chance to be released from custody.
Pechman said that as people who have entered the U.S. and been detained here, they are entitled to the Fifth Amendment's due-process protections, including"a longstanding prohibition against indefinite civil detention with no opportunity to test its necessity." "The court reaffirmed what has been settled for decades: that asylum-seekers who enter this country have a right to be free from arbitrary detention," Matt Adams, legal director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, said in a written statement."Thousands of asylum-seekers will continue to be able to seek release on bond, as they seek protection from persecution and torture.
The new policy would end that practice, keeping between 15,000 and 40,000 immigrants in custody for six months or more without requiring the government to show that their detentions are justified, in violation of their due process rights, the groups argued. Typically, close to half of asylum-seekers who are granted bond hearings are released from custody.
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