WASHINGTON The American Civil Liberties Union has slowed down the Trump administration s plan to deport 114 Iraqis, most of them Christians, who were arrested in Michigan last weekend and were expected to face deportation starting Friday.
After the ACLU filed a class-action petition and a motion for a temporary restraining order on behalf of the Iraqis on Thursday, the government set a hearing for Wednesday afternoon and confirmed that deportations would not be allowed to begin until next Friday at the earliest, Rana Elmir, the deputy director of the ACLU of Michigan, told HuffPost.
At the hearing next Wednesday, the detainees will have a chance to tell a judge their fears about what they could face in the war-torn nation, including torture and violent religious persecution, and the judge will have the opportunity to halt the deportations pending further legal proceedings.
The rights group believes President Donald Trump s move to begin the deportations was illegal.
Not only is it immoral to send people to a country where they are likely to be violently persecuted, it expressly violates United States and international law and treaties, said Kary Moss, the executive director of the ACLU of Michigan, in a Thursday afternoon statement.
We are hoping that the courts will recognize the extreme danger that deportation to Iraq would pose for these individuals, she added. Our immigration policy shouldnt amount to a death sentence for anyone.
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