Lawyers scramble to prevent Trump from deporting migrants to Libya
Source: msn/Washington Post
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Lawyers representing a number of immigrants asked a federal judge on Wednesday to “urgently” block the Trump administration from deporting a group of people to Libya, Saudi Arabia or any other country where they are not citizens until the U.S. government gives them a chance to contest the removals.
The lawyers asked Judge Brian E. Murphy in Boston to rule quickly after reports that federal immigration officers were preparing to expel people from Vietnam, Laos and the Philippines to Libya, a troubled North African nation “notorious for its human rights violations, especially with respect to migrant residents,” their emergency motions says. The Justice Department had not responded to their questions about the removals, the court filing notes.
In their filing, the lawyers said they feared the removals were “imminent” and argued that such a move would violate the judge’s prior orders barring the Trump administration from sending anyone with a final deportation order to a country where they are not a citizen without first giving them a “meaningful opportunity” to seek protection in the United States.
“This motion should not even be required as it blatantly defies this Court’s preliminary injunctions to remove class members without proper notice, a reasonable fear screening, and a 15-day opportunity to submit a motion to reopen after any negative reasonable fear determination,” the lawyers said in their filing.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/lawyers-scramble-to-prevent-trump-from-deporting-migrants-to-libya/ar-AA1ElCrM
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