Advocates criticized the policy change and said it would lock up people who are simply looking for safety.
Honduran asylum seekers are taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents Dec. 16 after the group crossed the U.S. border wall into San Diego, seen from Tijuana, Mexico.
But advocates criticized the policy change and said it would lock up people who are simply looking for safety. “We will see the administration in court on this latest unlawful & inhuman attempt to deter and punish asylum-seekers,” Jadwat wrote. Barr’s decision to withhold bail from asylum seekers comes as record numbers of Central American families, many fleeing violence and poverty, are crossing into the United States. These migrants know they can seek asylum under federal law and be released into the country pending court hearings about their claims, The Washington Post reported earlier this month.
“From separating families to attacking asylum seekers, this administration’s bottomless cruelty has failed time and time again,” said Julián Castro, a Democratic presidential candidate. “We need compassion, not cruelty, in our immigration system.”
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