Criminal Justice & the Rule of Law

ACLU Sues Over Asylum Rule Change

Vishnu Kannan
Tuesday, July 16, 2019, 4:59 PM

The ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed suit over the Trump administration’s recently announced policy to bar asylum applications from migrants travelling to the United States who have travelled through a third country en route. The complaint argues that the policy violates the will of Congress expressed in the Immigration and Nationality Act. The document is available in its entirety here and below.

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The ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed suit over the Trump administration’s recently announced policy to bar asylum applications from migrants travelling to the United States who have travelled through a third country en route. The complaint argues that the policy violates the will of Congress expressed in the Immigration and Nationality Act. The document is available in its entirety here and below.


Vishnu Kannan is special assistant to the president at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Previously he was a James C. Gaither Junior Fellow in Carnegie’s Technology and International Affairs Program, a researcher at Lawfare and the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and an intern at the Brookings Institution. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University where he studied International Relations, Political Theory and Economics.

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