EAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT v. TRUMP

No. 18-17274.

909 F.3d 1219 (2018)

EAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT; Al Otro Lado; Innovation Law Lab; Central American Resource Center, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Donald J. TRUMP, President of the United States; Matthew G. Whitaker, Acting Attorney General; James McHenry, Director, Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR); Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Lee Francis Cissna, Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services; Kevin K. McAleenan, Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection; Ronald Vitiello, Acting Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

FILED December 7, 2018.


ORDER

For more than 60 years, our country has agreed, by treaty, to accept refugees. In 1980, Congress codified our obligation to receive persons who are "unable or unwilling to return to" their home countries "because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality,...

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