A federal judge appointed by President Obama issued a preliminary injunction last week ending a key 2014 immigration executive action that helped end a wave of illegal immigration from Central Americans countries last summer.
“At the heat of Plaintiffs’ suit is their assertion that [the Department of Homeland Security] has adopted an unlawful detention policy aimed at deterring mass migration,” United States District Court for the District of Columbia Judge James Boasberg wrote in his opinion. “Defendants have presented little empirical evidence,” Boasberg continued, “that their detention policy achieves its only desired effect – i.e. that it actually deters potential immigrants from Central America.”
DHS implemented the executive action challenged by plaintiffs in June 2014 to detain migrants coming from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador who claimed a “credible fear” of persecution and sought asylum in the United States.
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