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Immigration,
Government

Mar. 16, 2018

Asylum seekers sue federal government over detention policy

A class action was filed Thursday against the Trump administration challenging what it says is the government’s practice of detaining certain asylum seekers against its own written policy.

A class action filed Thursday against the Trump administration challenges what it says is the government’s practice of detaining certain asylum seekers against its own written policy.

According to Eunice Lee, the co-legal director at the UC Hastings College of the Law’s Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, the government has failed to follow a 2010 memorandum to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that is still in effect and...

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