{"id":352403,"date":"2018-03-16T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T08:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-asylum-seekers-sue-trump-administration-over-detentions\/"},"modified":"2018-03-16T09:47:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T08:47:00","slug":"presstv-asylum-seekers-sue-trump-administration-over-detentions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-asylum-seekers-sue-trump-administration-over-detentions\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Asylum seekers sue Trump administration over detentions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A group of migrants seeking asylum in the United States have sued the administration of US President Donald Trump, claiming the government is unfairly keeping them in custody.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The class-action lawsuit filed on Thursday in a US federal court in Washington, DC, alleges five US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field offices have detained virtually all border-crossers at a port of entry while the migrants pursue their cases in immigration court.<\/p>\n<p>The US Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, said it does not comment on pending litigation and the US Justice Department declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit was filed on behalf of nine plaintiffs by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and immigrant rights groups.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit alleges that ICE offices are violating the US Constitution and the agency\u2019s own policy guidelines by refusing the release most immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>Trump promised during the 2016 presidential election campaign&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/03\/16\/555615\/Asylum-seekers-sue-US-government-refugees\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of migrants seeking asylum in the United States have sued the administration of US President Donald Trump, claiming the government is unfairly keeping them in custody. The class-action lawsuit filed on Thursday in a US federal court in Washington, DC, alleges five US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field offices have detained virtually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-352403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}