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Advocacy groups file lawsuit against ‘death to asylum’ rule

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Immigrant advocacy groups in a federal lawsuit they filed on Monday say the Trump administration’s “death to asylum” rule would make it nearly impossible for members of the LGBTQ community and people with HIV/AIDS to seek asylum in the U.S.

Immigration Equality, the TransLatin@ Coalition, the Transgender Law Center, Oasis Legal Services and the Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project are plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed in the U.S.

District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco. Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf and outgoing U.S.

Attorney General Bill Barr are among the named defendants. Lambda Legal is not a named plaintiff, but supports the lawsuit. A press release that announced the lawsuit says the new

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