A federal judge ordered the temporary halt of eight deportations related to asylum seekers who are the subjects of a pending lawsuit, but this will likely not make much of a difference.
According to the lawsuit, two women from Ecuador, a woman from Brazil, a family of four from Afghanistan, and an Egyptian all fear for their lives if the U.S. forces them to return.
There are two victims of domestic violence, including one who claims a police officer raped her, beat her, and held his gun to her head while threatening to kill her.
A woman from Ecuador claims she was living in the U.S. after surviving a kidnapping, rape, and torture by a cartel that targeted her because of her ethnicity and family ties.
The family from Afghanistan claims “they fear persecution by the Taliban because of their political views and perceived support for the United States,” and the Egyptian survived torture.
Politico reported Thursday that U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss blocked the deportation through Monday and Justice Department attorney Brian Ward argued that Moss had no authority to intervene and the woman allegedly attacked by the police officer in Ecuador was already deported.
Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Immigrant Justice Center in Chicago, and the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies in San Francisco submitted the lawsuit Wednesday while representing the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, or RAICES, in Texas.
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