Challenges against immigration measures continue in US courts

The aggressive immigration policies of the Donald Trump administration continue to be the focus of lawsuits filed in US courts today. 
 
One of these recent complaints is from several civil organizations advocating for immigrants challenging the requirement to register with the Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

“Without any public participation, the rule activates a World War II-era federal law that (…) requires non-citizens to register upon arrival in the United States,” they stated in their lawsuit before the US District Court in Washington, D.C.

“Outside cases of war or immediate death due to the terrorist attacks of September 11, the federal government has limited the registration requirement (…),” they added. “Now, however” they emphasized in their accusation, “the Trump administration is taking advantage of the requirement to turn the United States into a ‘show me your papers’ state and incentivize undocumented non-citizens to self-deportation.”

The plaintiffs are the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIrla), United Farm Workers of America, CASA, and Make the Road New York, who are legally supported by the American Civil Liberties Unions Immigrants’ Rights Project, among others, according to local media.

For Angélica Salas, executive director of CHrla, “this process is a massive raid and an extension of the Trump administration’s alarmist campaign targeting immigrants with deep roots in their communities and who contribute to the strength and vitality of our nation.”

For her part, Michelle Lapointe, legal director of the American Immigration Council, said that “this rule is an invitation to widespread abuse.”

“We are talking about a new reality in the United States, in which anyone perceived as an immigrant would have to carry their identification documents with them every time they leave home and be prepared to show them to authorities if asked, at the risk of being arrested,” Lapointe warned, quoted by the Spanish-language newspaper Le Opinion.

The Trump administration is facing various legal challenges in the courts over issues such as the attempt to suspend the refugee resettlement system, eliminating the constitutional right to birthright citizenship, and deporting without court hearings those it accuses of crimes without evidence.

The day before, a federal judge placed a red light on the order to temporarily end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 350,000 Venezuelan migrants in the United States.