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Lambda Legal and Immigration Equality to challenge new asylum ban

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Washington, D.C. — Today, Trump’s Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice announced they will soon publish a new rule that guts the U.S.

asylum system. The ban will make it virtually impossible for LGBTQ people and those living with HIV who fled persecution in their countries of origin to secure asylum in the U.S.

Likewise, it almost entirely bans women who make gender-based claims and victims of non-state violence from obtaining asylum.

Lambda Legal CEO Kevin Jennings and Immigration Equality Executive Director Aaron C. Morris responded with the following statement: “The depth of the Trump administration’s cruelty toward some of the most vulnerable people in the world truly knows no bounds.

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