'This is not an asylum ban. We have a humanitarian obligation as well as a matter of security to cut the ruthless smugglers out,' Mayorkas said on Sunday.
"The Biden administration's new ban places vulnerable asylum seekers in grave danger and violates U.S. asylum laws. We've been down this road before with Trump," said Katrina Eiland, managing attorney with the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, in a statement announcing the lawsuit."The asylum bans were cruel and illegal then, and nothing has changed now."
. The end of the policy has been accompanied by a surge in the number of migrants arriving at the border and hoping to claim asylum in the United States. Mexican government data quoted byshows that tens of thousands of migrants have crossed Mexican territory to reach the U.S. border since early April.
On Sunday, Mayorkas said the ACLU's claim of imposing a similar Trump policy is"absolutely incorrect," and that he disagrees with"every aspect" of that statement.
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