The United States has long offered a promise of opportunity and safety to arriving immigrants. We work to ensure that our country safeguards that promise, and to ensure that immigrants are treated fairly, equally, and with dignity.

We’re challenging Trump administration policies that have shredded the nation’s decades-old asylum system.

The Trump administration has enacted policy after policy aimed at eviscerating the legal rights of people seeking asylum and creating the harshest conditions possible for them, with the stated goal of deterring others through the suffering of migrants who have already made the journey.

This war on asylum-seekers has created a humanitarian crisis.

Tens of thousands of people – many of them fleeing violence and persecution – have been stranded just across the border, often in squalid and dangerous conditions.

First, the administration implemented its “Turnback Policy,” under which people seeking protection who present themselves at official ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border are turned away, dramatically reducing the number who are inspected and processed. Many migrants, often entire families, have been forced to live for months in shelters or under makeshift conditions in Mexico.

In addition to creating an enormous backlog of people waiting to be processed, the chokehold at the border has led many desperate migrants to attempt to cross the border between ports of entry. In response, the administration sought to implement a rule making it illegal for those entering between ports of entry to apply for asylum.

With our partners, we have filed a series of lawsuits challenging this administration’s illegal and inhumane assault on asylum-seekers. And we’re determined to continue fighting to uphold the law and protect the rights of those who seek refuge in our country.

Our Cases:

East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, et al. v. William Barr, et al. : https://www.splcenter.org/seeking-justice/case-docket/east-bay-sanctuary-covenant-et-al-v-william-barr-et-al

Innovation Law Lab, et al. v. McAleenan, et al. : https://www.splcenter.org/seeking-justice/case-docket/innovation-law-lab-et-al-v-kirstjen-nielsen-et-al

East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, et al. v. Donald J. Trump, et al. : https://www.splcenter.org/seeking-justice/case-docket/east-bay-sanctuary-covenant-et-al-v-donald-j-trump-et-al

Al Otro Lado, Inc., et al. v. McAleenan et al. : https://www.splcenter.org/seeking-justice/case-docket/al-otro-lado-inc-et-al-v-kirstjen-m-nielsen-et-al

Learn more: https://www.splcenter.org/our-issues/immigrant-justice/rights-asylum-seekers

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