ACLU Sues Obama Administration for Detaining Asylum Seekers as Intimidation Tactic

by Gary Kopycinski on December 16, 2014

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WASHINGTON —(ENEWSPF)–December 16, 2014. The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a nationwide class-action lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s policy of locking up asylum-seeking mothers and children to intimidate others from coming to the United States.