Criminal Justice & the Rule of Law

Second Lawsuit Filed Against New Asylum Restrictions

Vishnu Kannan
Wednesday, July 17, 2019, 3:40 PM

Two immigration support and advocacy organizations filed suit over the Trump administration’s latest restrictions on asylum, in addition to the ACLU’s lawsuit. Both the complaint and the plaintiffs’ motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction are available below.

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Two immigration support and advocacy organizations filed suit over the Trump administration’s latest restrictions on asylum, in addition to the ACLU’s lawsuit. Both the complaint and the plaintiffs’ motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction are available below.

Complaint:

Motion for temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction:


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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