...The suit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Center for Constitutional Rights, alleges that a proposed rule change announced on Monday by the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security amounts to “an unlawful effort to significantly undermine, if not virtually repeal, the U.S. asylum systemat the southern border, and cruelly closes our doors to refugees fleeing persecution, forcing them to return to harm.” ...

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