President Donald Trump with Kirstjen Nielsen, the Homeland Security secretary, at the White House in October. A lawsuit filed in California seeks to enjoin a new rule against processing asylum requests from people who illegally cross the southern U.S. border.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Friday challenging the Trump administration's new rule banning asylum requests from people who enter the country illegally.
The complaint on behalf of three California-based nonprofits that provide legal services to asylum seekers was filed in the Northern District and seeks injunctive relief from the interim final rule published by the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday.
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