An appeals court has ruled the U.S. government practice of metering asylum seekers at the border is illegal.
The San Diego-based border aid group Al Otro Lado and other groups first filed suit almost a decade ago. It was on behalf of a group of asylum seekers subject to a practice that had U.S. border officers turning migrants away after a daily cap on asylum applications was met.
The rights groups argued the policy violates asylum seekers’ due process and a portion of U.S. immigration law that guarantees the right to seek asylum on U.S. soil.
In a 2-1 ruling this week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said border officers are legally required to process asylum seekers when they arrive at a port of entry, and said the metering practice went against that.
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Protesters have been camped out in a plot of private ranch land in Lochiel for over two months now, trying to block wall construction as it neared a towering cottonwood tree that was the last of a grove slated for destruction to make way for two, parallel steel bollard walls. -
Ahmed Soliman has no ties to Equatorial Guinea. The 30-year-old man was born in Egypt and brought to the United States. when he was just 4 years old. He grew up in Phoenix. Now he’s believed to be in a hospital in the African nation. -
Activists have spent the last 70 days camped around and inside a cottonwood tree right along the border in the tiny town of Lochiel. The tree was the last of an old grove estimated to be up to 250 years old.
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The relationship between Pinal County Attorney Brad Miller and the Board of Supervisors has been rocky since a legal fight started over Miller unilaterally signing up to work with ICE. -
The National Park Service has denied an activist group’s request to place water stations along the Arizona-Mexico border — marking the first time their permit has been denied in more than two decades.
