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"content": "\u003cp>A federal court in San Francisco made it harder Thursday for the U.S. government to quickly deport asylum-seekers if they fail an initial screening at the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A law passed by Congress in 1996 sharply limited the ability of asylum-seekers to access U.S. courts if they want to challenge decisions of an asylum officer and immigration judge. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those limitations are unconstitutional, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asylum-seekers are offered \"meager procedural protections,\" and the law prevents \"meaningful\" judicial review of whether the Department of Homeland Security applied the proper legal standards in rejecting an asylum claim, \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2019/03/07/18-55313.pdf\">wrote \u003c/a>Judge A. Wallace Tashima for the unanimous court. \"We think it obvious that the constitutional minimum ... is not satisfied by such a scheme.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling could give thousands of asylum-seekers the right to seek review in the federal court system. Legal analysts say the decision is likely to be appealed by the Trump administration, which has changed policies on the border to try to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/12/21/679057325/trump-administration-changes-border-policy-to-discourage-asylum-seekers\">discourage \u003c/a>asylum-seekers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Asylum-Seekers\" tag=\"asylum-seekers\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The historical and practical importance of this ruling cannot be overstated,\" said Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Immigrants' Rights project, who argued for the asylum-seekers. \"This decision reaffirms the Constitution's foundational principle that individuals deprived of their liberty must have access to a federal court,\" Gelernt said, according to The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case centers on Vijayakumar Thuraissigiam, a Sri Lankan man who faced retribution after he supported a minority political candidate for office. Thuraissigiam says he was detained and beaten by Sri Lankan army officers, threatened with death, and lowered into a well, where he suffocated and lost consciousness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thuraissigiam fled the country and, in early 2017, entered the country at the U.S.-Mexico border at San Ysidro. Picked up by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, he told an asylum officer he was afraid to go back to Sri Lanka. But the asylum officer determined his fear was not \"credible,\" and an immigration judge agreed, sending the man back to DHS for removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally, that's where an asylum-seeker's legal journey would end. But the Ninth Circuit ruled that the \"Suspension Clause\" in the U.S. Constitution gives people like Thuraissigiam broad power to seek \u003cem>habeas corpus \u003c/em>review by the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2008 Supreme Court case established that people must have a \"meaningful opportunity\" to demonstrate that the law was being applied erroneously. The law passed by Congress \"does not provide that meaningful opportunity,\" and therefore violates the constitution, the court said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his appeal, Thuraissigiam said that the asylum officer didn't ask questions that would reveal the extent of his fear, and also that there were \"communication problems\" between the officer, Thuraissigiam and the translator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thuraissigiam's case will now go back to a lower court for further deliberation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a historic decision,\" Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration scholar at Cornell Law School, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/us/asylum-seekers-ninth-circuit.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage\">told \u003c/a>\u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>. \"But the government will surely appeal this to the Supreme Court.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The decision could have major implications for migrants who are seeking asylum,\" said NPR's Joel Rose. \"It could also further clog an immigration court system that already has a massive backlog.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Asylum-Seekers+Can+Appeal+Fast-Track+Deportations%2C+Court+Rules&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>As local officials on the Texas-Mexico border scramble to accommodate thousands of recent migrants from Central America and beyond, they are bracing for the U.S. to expand its “Remain in Mexico” policy, which could send many more people back across the border to wait while their asylum claims are processed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new policy, which is already in force at the Tijuana-San Diego border, has officials in the Mexican state of Chihuahua concerned that they can’t handle the coming waves of migrants. Since late October 2018, more than 8,000 migrants have arrived in Juarez, many coming from Central America, Cuba, Russia and countries in Africa, including Angola and Cameroon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t agree with this program. Without it, we have enough problems,” said Ramon Galindo, sub-secretary of social development for Chihuahua’s northern region. “If they use Mexico as a hotel for migrants, it’s going to create a bigger problem than we have now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galindo was one of several state and local leaders who met on Friday with Customs and Border Protection and other U.S. immigration officials at the Mexican Consulate in El Paso about the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past few weeks, officials have been attending meetings like these while maintaining a local sports arena-turned-shelter for hundreds of migrants waiting to ask for asylum in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In spite of the fact that it has been implemented in Tijuana, we still do not have information from the Mexican federal government or U.S. authorities about how this program will work,” said Enrique Valenzuela, general coordinator with the state population agency COESPO. “I believe that’s because maybe (Mexico’s) federal government maybe does not have clarity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An official with Mexico’s federal immigration agency, Instituto Nacional de Migracion, declined to respond to questions about negotiations between the U.S. and Mexico concerning the program and its expansion because he was not authorized to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11730979\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11730979\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_kids-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_kids-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_kids-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_kids-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_kids-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_kids-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This basketball court at a sports arena in Juarez has become a resting place for nearly 500 migrants from Cuba, Russia and countries in Central America and Africa. Many of the migrants have children with them. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'No Money, No Resources'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new policy began in late January in Tijuana, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/world/americas/mexico-migration-trump.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times\u003c/a> has reported that at least 120 migrants have been returned to await their first date in U.S. immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in Juarez had been told the program would begin there as early as last Friday. However, in a conference call that day, senior DHS officials told reporters that the program would not immediately begin but that the number of migrants returned to Mexico for processing would “grow exponentially.” The officials also did not say when or how the program would expand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote citation=\"Ramon Galindo, sub-secretary of social development for Chihuahua’s northern region\"]\"If they use Mexico as a hotel for migrants, it’s going to create a bigger problem than we have now.\"[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chihuahua officials are worried that communities along the border will have to deal with the return of migrants without federal help from either country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not know of any budget being assigned to this issue,” Valenzuela said. “We do not have the money, we do not have the resources. Not the city of Juarez, not the state of Chihuahua.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials also fear it could make life chaotic in an area experiencing what they say is an unprecedented influx of migrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We made it clear: It’s not fair that local authorities are facing this problem alone,” Galindo said. “We feel alone in having to respond to this program that we did not create.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11730981\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11730981\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_woman-washing-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_woman-washing-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_woman-washing-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_woman-washing-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_woman-washing-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_woman-washing-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catalina Velasquez washes clothes in a wash bin outside a shelter in Juarez while her 18-month-old son, Jefferson, watches. She does not plan to ask for asylum in the U.S.; rather, she wants to find a job there, she says. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Human rights advocates on both sides of the border have questioned whether the Remain in Mexico policy is legally valid under Mexican law. When a deal is made with another country, an accord or convention is formalized, said Blanca Navarrete, director of Derechos Humanos Integrales en Acción.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that no signed agreement exists,” she said, adding that the policy also violates the rights of asylum-seekers under the International Declaration of Human Rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote citation=\"Darwin Oporta, who arrived in Juarez on Feb. 16, after fleeing violence in Nicaragua\"]\"If we leave this shelter, we’re really leaving. We can’t get back in.\"[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local officials say migrants arriving in Juarez tell them they heard it would be easier to cross there than in Tijuana, where thousands of migrants, some traveling in groups or caravans, have arrived in recent months. But officials say that’s not true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of families apprehended in the El Paso sector has increased 1,689 percent from last year — the greatest shift of any area along the southern border, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection,.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11730980\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11730980\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_Darwin-3-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_Darwin-3-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_Darwin-3-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_Darwin-3-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_Darwin-3-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_Darwin-3-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darwin Oporta and Raquel Picado Al Faro rest on their mats at the Gimnasio del Colegio de Bachilleres, a sports arena recently converted into a shelter for migrants in Juárez. The pair left Nicaragua separately three months ago, fleeing violence by police. They met at the border between Mexico and Guatemala and decided to travel to the U.S. together to ask for asylum. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘The Migrant That Enters Legally Is Welcome in the U.S.’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three weeks ago, after the city’s largest migrant shelter ran out of space, Juarez officials set up a refuge in a sports arena in the town center, the Gimnasio del Colegio de Bachilleres. With the help of nonprofit groups and volunteers, the city has been providing meals, laundry tubs and medical and psychological care for about 500 migrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='immigration' label='More from our immigration coverage.']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the migrants, Darwin Oporta, arrived to Juarez on Feb. 16, three months after fleeing violence by police in his home country of Nicaragua. He wore a pink paper wristband with the number 6,074 written on it. When his number comes up, he told KQED last week, he plans to go to the border and request asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“President Trump said the migrant that enters legally is welcome in the U.S. The migrant that enters illegally will be deported to his country,” Oporta said. “That’s why I’m coming in legally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the Remain in Mexico policy, Oporta said he didn’t feel safe staying in Mexico while he waited to request asylum in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mexico is not a safe place for us, especially close to the border,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we leave this shelter, we’re really leaving. We can’t get back in. They say 10 leave and 20 more come,” Oporta added. “If the United States sends us back, things will get complicated. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As local officials on the Texas-Mexico border scramble to accommodate thousands of recent migrants from Central America and beyond, they are bracing for the U.S. to expand its “Remain in Mexico” policy, which could send many more people back across the border to wait while their asylum claims are processed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new policy, which is already in force at the Tijuana-San Diego border, has officials in the Mexican state of Chihuahua concerned that they can’t handle the coming waves of migrants. Since late October 2018, more than 8,000 migrants have arrived in Juarez, many coming from Central America, Cuba, Russia and countries in Africa, including Angola and Cameroon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t agree with this program. Without it, we have enough problems,” said Ramon Galindo, sub-secretary of social development for Chihuahua’s northern region. “If they use Mexico as a hotel for migrants, it’s going to create a bigger problem than we have now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galindo was one of several state and local leaders who met on Friday with Customs and Border Protection and other U.S. immigration officials at the Mexican Consulate in El Paso about the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past few weeks, officials have been attending meetings like these while maintaining a local sports arena-turned-shelter for hundreds of migrants waiting to ask for asylum in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chihuahua officials are worried that communities along the border will have to deal with the return of migrants without federal help from either country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not know of any budget being assigned to this issue,” Valenzuela said. “We do not have the money, we do not have the resources. Not the city of Juarez, not the state of Chihuahua.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials also fear it could make life chaotic in an area experiencing what they say is an unprecedented influx of migrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We made it clear: It’s not fair that local authorities are facing this problem alone,” Galindo said. “We feel alone in having to respond to this program that we did not create.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11730981\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11730981\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_woman-washing-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_woman-washing-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_woman-washing-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_woman-washing-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_woman-washing-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_woman-washing-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catalina Velasquez washes clothes in a wash bin outside a shelter in Juarez while her 18-month-old son, Jefferson, watches. She does not plan to ask for asylum in the U.S.; rather, she wants to find a job there, she says. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Human rights advocates on both sides of the border have questioned whether the Remain in Mexico policy is legally valid under Mexican law. When a deal is made with another country, an accord or convention is formalized, said Blanca Navarrete, director of Derechos Humanos Integrales en Acción.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that no signed agreement exists,” she said, adding that the policy also violates the rights of asylum-seekers under the International Declaration of Human Rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Bay Area legal aid organizations and a group of asylum-seekers are suing the Trump administration to block a new policy that has forced dozens of Central American migrants to return to Mexico while their immigration cases snake through U.S. courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal challenge comes just weeks after the federal government began implementing the dramatic policy change, which the administration calls “\u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2019/01/24/migrant-protection-protocols\">Migrant Protection Protocols\u003c/a>,” at the San Diego-Tijuana border crossing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. immigration authorities returned the 11 individual plaintiffs to Tijuana, where they fear for their lives, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/innovation-law-lab-v-nielsen-complaint\">complaint\u003c/a> filed Thursday in federal court in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11724350/as-u-s-starts-returning-asylum-seekers-to-mexico-questions-remain/\">As U.S. Starts Returning Asylum-Seekers to Mexico, Questions Remain\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11724350/as-u-s-starts-returning-asylum-seekers-to-mexico-questions-remain\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34133_chaparral-FINAL-02-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The organizations also suing the federal government claim the new policy, known informally as \"Remain in Mexico,\" violates international law and thwarts their mission to provide legal services to asylum-seekers who are physically removed from the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It severely limits who we are able to represent and how effectively we can prepare a case,” said Barbara Pinto, immigration policy director at Centro Legal de la Raza, one of the plaintiffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal representation is key to winning asylum. Without an attorney, only one out of every 10 asylum-seekers succeed in their claims, \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/491/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to researchers at Syracuse University\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinto said her organization provides legal representation to about 2,000 people a year who are fighting deportation, including more than half who are also applying for asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Trump administration expands \"Remain in Mexico\" to other border crossings as planned, Pinto said more potential clients will be pushed back into Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will be extremely difficult for many Central American asylum-seekers, who don’t have any resources or are homeless in Mexico, to find and keep a U.S. immigration attorney to win their case, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717074/asylum-seekers-in-california-wait-for-their-day-in-immigration-court\">Asylum-Seekers in California Wait for Their Day in Immigration Court\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717074/asylum-seekers-in-california-wait-for-their-day-in-immigration-court\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34142_chaparral-FINAL-11-e1547066130744-1020x679.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Justice will defend the policy in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Congress has explicitly authorized the Department of Homeland Security to return aliens arriving from a contiguous foreign territory to that territory during that alien’s immigration court proceedings,” said Steven Stafford, a DOJ spokesman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, migrants seeking asylum could wait in the U.S. for their claims to be resolved by an immigration judge, which can take years due the severe court backlog of more than 760,000 active cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said the new policy aims to discourage illegal immigration by removing the “key incentive” of being allowed into the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Aliens trying to game the system to get into our country illegally will no longer be able to disappear into the United States, where many skip their court dates,” said Nielsen while announcing the new policy in December. “Instead, they will wait for an immigration court decision while they are in Mexico.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, a DHS official said \"Remain in Mexico\" would be expanded to ports of entry in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1990s and 2000s, the majority of those arrested by the Border Patrol along the southern border were men from Mexico, who authorities could easily deport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Central American families and unaccompanied children have become a growing share of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrests by the Border Patrol\u003c/a>. From October through December 2018, families and unaccompanied minors represented almost 60 percent of apprehensions along the border with Mexico. Many of them say they are fleeing violence in their home countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11718987/thousands-more-migrant-children-may-have-been-separated-from-families\">Thousands More Migrant Children May Have Been Separated From Families\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11718987/thousands-more-migrant-children-may-have-been-separated-from-families\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/GettyImages-1026536026-e1547762507389.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit says that \"Remain in Mexico\" is exposing asylum-seekers to greater danger in Mexican border cities that are among the most violent in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research shows Tijuana had the highest number of homicides in Mexico in 2017 and 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Asylum-seekers at the border are fleeing horrendous conditions in their home countries and they have the right under our law and international law to seek protection and refuge in the United States,” said Pinto. “And by not allowing them to do so we are endangering their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 6:14 p.m. PT\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump will support a border security funding compromise, averting a partial government shutdown early Saturday — but he also will declare a national emergency in order to build the wall he has pushed for along the U.S.-Mexico border. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"President Trump will sign the government funding bill, and as he has stated before, he will also take other executive action — including a national emergency — to ensure we stop the national security and humanitarian crisis at the border,\" White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement. \"The President is once again delivering on his promise to build the wall, protect the border, and secure our great country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Thursday evening, Congress had easily passed the bipartisan spending deal, which had been crafted by lawmakers from both the chambers. The vote was 83-16 in the Senate and 300-128 in the House, constituting veto-proof majorities. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the president's decision removes the threat of another partial shutdown, it also raises the stakes in his push for a trademark border wall right as the 2020 presidential campaign is heating up. Trump's move to pursue additional funding for the wall through the declaration of a national emergency is an extraordinary and unprecedented possible use of presidential power — and one almost certain to elicit efforts to limit the executive branch's expansive authority over what constitutes such an emergency and how one is to be handled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump had seemed somewhat hesitant to sign the breakthrough deal that congressional negotiators reached in the wake of a previous 35-day shutdown, the longest ever in U.S. history. The proposal only includes $1.375 billion for border barriers and increases other border security funding — far short of the $5.7 billion Trump had demanded to make his signature campaign promise a reality. Many influential conservatives balked at that figure, which is what triggered Trump to back off an earlier similar funding offer in December that led to the partial shutdown. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now he will go along with the offer — by adding his own controversial terms. For some time, Trump has floated the idea of declaring a national emergency to secure the funding he desires, and it's an idea that Democrats and many within the GOP have cautioned him against, both for the potential precedent it would set and legal challenges it almost certainly will face. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a joint statement, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said an emergency declaration \"would be a lawless act, a gross abuse of the power of the presidency and a desperate attempt to distract from the fact that President Trump broke his core promise to have Mexico pay for his wall.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/TeamPelosi/status/1096184812115767297\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is yet another demonstration of President Trump's naked contempt for the rule of law. This is not an emergency, and the president's fearmongering doesn't make it one. He couldn't convince Mexico, the American people or their elected representatives to pay for his ineffective and expensive wall, so now he's trying an end-run around Congress in a desperate attempt to put taxpayers on the hook for it. The Congress will defend our constitutional authorities,\" the Democratic leaders said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was the first to make the announcement Thursday afternoon that Trump would back the legislative package. McConnell also said he would endorse the president's plan to declare a national emergency, even though the top Senate Republican seemed to previously warn against such a maneuver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And he — I would say to all my colleagues that he has indicated he's prepared to sign the bill. He will also be issuing a national emergency declaration at the same time. And I've indicated to him that I'm going to support the national emergency declaration,\" McConnell said on the Senate floor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $333 billion bipartisan spending package also funds a number of unrelated agencies that have become part of the overall spending fight. The bill also has restrictions on where the fencing can be built, including explicit protections for sites like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11725867/butterflies-vs-border-wall-national-butterfly-center-seeks-restraining-order\">a butterfly refuge\u003c/a> in the Rio Grande Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McConnell and other top Republicans had urged Trump to sign it, with Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate, even invoking a high power after the daily morning prayer on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Let's all pray that the president will have wisdom to sign the bill so government doesn't shut down,\" Grassley said before leading the chamber in the Pledge of Allegiance. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Democrats had celebrated the legislation as a victory over Trump's demand for $5.7 billion to build more than 200 miles of concrete wall along the U.S. border with Mexico. The final agreement includes a fraction of that funding for steel fencing that is similar to existing barriers elsewhere on the border. However, that victory was short-lived with the news of the emergency declaration, which Democrats have already indicated they would challenge in court. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't believe there's any good faith negotiations to have with Republicans if they're going to support the president doing an end run around Congress,\" Pelosi said in a press conference shortly after McConnell's remarks in the Senate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So the precedent that the president is setting here is something that should be met with great unease and dismay by the Republicans, and of course we will respond when we review our options,\" Pelosi said, adding that \"Republicans should have some dismay about the door that they are opening, the threshold they are crossing.\"\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said earlier this month in his Spanish-language response to the State of the Union that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723796/california-attorney-general-vows-to-sue-if-trump-uses-emergency-powers-to-build-wall\">he would sue the Trump administration\u003c/a> the moment the president declares a national emergency to free up funds for a border wall. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Any crisis on our border is of President Trump's own making: family separations, child detention, turning our backs on asylum seekers, and more. There is no national emergency. If Trump oversteps his authority and abandons negotiations with Congress by declaring a fabricated national emergency, we won't only call his bluff, we will do what we must to hold him accountable,\" Becerra said in a statement Thursday. \"No one is above the law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There could also be a way Democrats in Congress could \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11725334/if-trump-declares-an-emergency-to-build-the-wall-congress-can-block-him\">seek to invalidate any emergency declaration\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to reporters, Sanders dismissed any possible legal challenges to the emergency declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are very prepared but there shouldn't be [any challenges],\" the White House press secretary said. \"The president's doing his job. Congress should do theirs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a Trump ally, said in a statement that this was the right move from the president. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The budget deal is a down payment on the wall, provides funding for more immigration judges, and does not include a cap on detention beds for violent illegal immigrant offenders,\" Graham said. \"It's now time for President Trump to use executive power, including declaring national emergency, to build the wall.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've heard the arguments that it will be the end of Western order, and I don't believe that. I've heard the arguments that it sets a precedent, as if future presidents wouldn't be smart enough to know they have this option. The president isn't exercising any power that Congress didn't give him,\" said Sen. John Kennedy, R-La. \"I don't know how he is going to structure it. It may be there will have to be a vote of Congress. Almost surely someone will try to tie it up in court.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other senators, however, sounded more skeptical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My concerns about an emergency declaration were the precedent it would establish,\" said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. \"I also thought it would not be a practical solution because there would be a lawsuit filed immediately and the money would presumably be balled up associated with that litigation. I thought there were other, better alternatives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I generally don't think that's a good approach but we'll have to deal with it and see what can be done about it,\" Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said of the impending national emergency declaration. \"But again I want to see what he actually does.\"\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In general I'm not for using emergency powers because I think the Constitution is very clear at very — trying to separate the powers. And if we start naming things as emergency, very quickly we lose things — sort of the checks and balances of government,\" said libertarian-leaning Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The homeland security funding bill would also reduce the number of immigration detention beds from roughly 49,060 to roughly 40,000 over the course of a year. Detention beds became a major issue in the negotiations after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11725493/ice-detention-beds-new-stumbling-block-in-efforts-to-prevent-another-shutdown\">Democrats sought to curb aggressive immigration enforcement\u003c/a> in exchange for more overall spending on border security. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation also includes a number of funding changes for programs ranging from border security to energy and environment. 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McConnell also said he would endorse the president's plan to declare a national emergency, even though the top Senate Republican seemed to previously warn against such a maneuver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And he — I would say to all my colleagues that he has indicated he's prepared to sign the bill. He will also be issuing a national emergency declaration at the same time. And I've indicated to him that I'm going to support the national emergency declaration,\" McConnell said on the Senate floor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $333 billion bipartisan spending package also funds a number of unrelated agencies that have become part of the overall spending fight. The bill also has restrictions on where the fencing can be built, including explicit protections for sites like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11725867/butterflies-vs-border-wall-national-butterfly-center-seeks-restraining-order\">a butterfly refuge\u003c/a> in the Rio Grande Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McConnell and other top Republicans had urged Trump to sign it, with Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate, even invoking a high power after the daily morning prayer on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Let's all pray that the president will have wisdom to sign the bill so government doesn't shut down,\" Grassley said before leading the chamber in the Pledge of Allegiance. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Democrats had celebrated the legislation as a victory over Trump's demand for $5.7 billion to build more than 200 miles of concrete wall along the U.S. border with Mexico. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As border wall construction begins on land next to the butterfly center, the Trump administration's \"constitutional violations are escalating,\" NABA wrote, alleging its property was being destroyed in violation of the Fourth and Fifth amendments to the U.S. Constitution. NABA says government officials have installed cameras on its private property and have \"engaged in harassment\" of Butterfly Center staff and visitors since the summer of 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Customs and Border Protection spokesman \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/12/politics/butterfly-conservationists-ask-court-to-stop-border-wall-construction/index.html\">told CNN\u003c/a> they wouldn't comment, citing ongoing litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People have been talking about butterflies versus border security, but this case is about so much more than that,\" Trevino Wright said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/north-american-butterfly-association-files-for-injunctive-relief-to-halt-illegal-seizure-of-its-property-for-border-wall-construction-300794133.html\">statement\u003c/a>. \"It is about constitutional protections, the right to due process, the illegal waiver of laws duly enacted by Congress, and the lawlessness of the federal government's actions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Imagine going home to your house one day and finding people cutting down your trees, knocking down your fence and destroying your yard,\" Trevino Wright \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/12/03/673022628/south-texas-butterfly-sanctuary-threatened-by-trumps-border-wall\">told NPR \u003c/a>last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The butterfly center has set up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/protect-the-national-butterfly-center\">GoFundMe page\u003c/a> to help with its legal defense costs. So far, it has raised nearly $90,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The issue is not whether butterflies can fly over a wall, but whether private property (farms, businesses, homes) should be seized and destroyed for a project that does not serve the greater good or enhance national security,\" the center wrote. The wall essentially \"pushes the boundaries of Mexico north of the Rio Grande and makes America smaller,\" it said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Butterflies+Vs.+Border+Wall%3A+National+Butterfly+Center+Seeks+Restraining+Order&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Trump administration was within its rights to waive dozens of environmental laws to fast-track some border construction projects in Southern California, a federal appeals court has ruled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11606378/homeland-security-to-waive-environmental-rules-on-border-wall-projects\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in 2017\u003c/a> it would bypass various environmental regulations — including the National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Air Act, and Endangered Species Act — to quickly construct barriers and roads near the U.S.-Mexico border, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/01/540892890/homeland-security-to-waive-environmental-rules-on-border-wall-projects\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR reported\u003c/a>. By granting itself the waiver, the government avoided the requirement to complete environmental impact studies. Environmental advocacy groups and the state of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11617192/environmentalists-sue-to-block-us-border-wall-with-mexico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California quickly challenged the waiver\u003c/a> in court, arguing the agency overstepped its authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2019/02/11/18-55474.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">court ruled Monday\u003c/a> that the agency has \"a broad grant of authority\" to waive environmental statutes if the director finds it necessary to quickly complete security projects. The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 explicitly gave the government that power, the court said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Justice Department spokesman told The Hill that the court's ruling was \"a victory for the Trump administration, for the rule of law, and above all, for our border security.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2017/08/01/dhs-issues-waiver-expedite-border-construction-projects-san-diego-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">waiver\u003c/a> let the government replace 14 miles of fencing on land stretching east from the Pacific Ocean, and also build \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/the-conversation/sd-trump-border-prototypes-san-diego-20180228-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prototypes\u003c/a> of Trump's border wall in San Diego. Another project replaces an existing 14-foot section of fencing with a taller barrier that is supposed to be more effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11725642\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11725642 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_18357252388304-3b6af53db2d0ca1061410928e000223507f70b05-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Border wall prototypes stand in San Diego near the Mexico U.S. border, seen from Tijuana. A federal court ruled Monday that the Department of Homeland Security had the authority to waive environmental regulations in constructing the prototypes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Border wall prototypes stand in San Diego near the Mexico-U.S. border, seen from Tijuana. A federal court ruled Monday that the Department of Homeland Security had the authority to waive environmental regulations in constructing the prototypes. \u003ccite>(Daniel Ochoa de Olza/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Sierra Club, one of the challengers in the case, said the advocacy group was contemplating next steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not saying necessarily the 9th Circuit or any judges got this wrong,\" they \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/429444-appeals-court-sides-with-trump-in-border-wall-prototype-dispute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told The Hill\u003c/a>. \"I think that when Congress passed these statutes in the '90s, it was contemplating specific, real immigration issues. I think the problem is this legislation is so broad that it can fold in what is frankly a racist campaign slogan that turned into some presidential act to build a wall along our southern border without any justification.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Attorney General's Office said it was \"disappointed with the ruling, but pleased that the court recognized the Trump administration does not have unlimited power and that the administration's authority to build a barrier along our border is subject to judicial review,\" the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Trump-s-border-wall-Fed-court-rejects-some-of-13608356.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not the first time DHS has waived environmental laws in order to build barriers and roads at the border. 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In the more than 40 years since the law was passed, only one member of Congress has ever tried it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a lever that we had,” said George Miller, the former Democratic congressman from California. “We decided to use it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723796/california-attorney-general-vows-to-sue-if-trump-uses-emergency-powers-to-build-wall\">California Attorney General Vows to Sue If Trump Uses Emergency Powers to Build Wall\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723796/california-attorney-general-vows-to-sue-if-trump-uses-emergency-powers-to-build-wall\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_18311292868638_custom-a93f93ad1ce1ebd685c597c70a33cdcca308d545-1020x736.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It was 2005, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, when President George W. 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