© Reuters. A gaggle of migrants cross a canal close to the U.S.-Mexico border fence as they intend to show themselves in to U.S. Customs and Border Safety (CBP) brokers earlier than the lifting of Title 42, in Tijuana, Mexico Could 11, 2023. REUTERS/Jorge Duenes
By Ted Hesson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Immigration advocates represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a authorized problem on Thursday minutes earlier than a U.S. regulation proscribing entry to asylum at U.S.-Mexico border was set to take impact.
In a movement filed earlier than a federal decide in California, the teams wish to re-open an current lawsuit over comparable restrictions carried out by Republican former President Donald Trump and replace the case to focus on the brand new regulation issued by President Joe Biden, a Democrat.
The teams stated the Biden regulation “dramatically curtails the supply of asylum in the USA” and mirrored comparable Trump-era insurance policies blocked in court docket.
The strict new asylum regulation is a key a part of Biden’s technique to deal with a attainable rise in unlawful immigration as COVID-19 restrictions, often known as Title 42, ended at midnight on Thursday.
Tens of hundreds of migrants have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally in current days, with some saying they had been frightened Biden’s new regulation could be extra strict.
