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et seq.

See

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About CBP About CBP

See, e.g. Bad Information: Border Patrol Arrest Reports Are Full of Lies That Can Sabotage Asylum Claims

Fact Sheet: Allowing CBP to Conduct Credible Fear Interviews Undermines Safeguards to Protect Refugees

Facing Walls: USA and Mexico’s Violations of the Rights of Asylum-Seekers

Still No Action Taken: Complaints Against Border Patrol

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Agents Continue to Go Unanswered Barriers to Protection: The Treatment of Asylum Seekers in Expedited

Removal See, e.g., The Border Patrol Hits a Breaking Point

Neglect and Abuse of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children by U.S. Customs and Border Protection

supra Deportations in the Dark: Lack of Process and Information in the Removal of

Mexican MigrantsSee Border Patrol agents, rather than asylum officers, interviewing families for

‘credible fear’Stephen Miller wants Border Patrol, not asylum officers, to determine migrant asylum claims

U.S. asylum screeners to take more confrontational approach as Trump aims to turn more migrants away at the border U.S. will assign dozens of border agents to migrant asylum interviews

See supra supra supra .

supra

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See The Trump Administration’s Child Separation Policy: Substantiated Allegations of Mistreatment Before the H. Comm. on Oversight & Reform

supra

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Expedited Removal and the Credible Fear Screening Process

About CBP supra

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See

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But see Make the Road New York v. McAleenan

See

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de novo

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see

The Role of USCIS Asylum Officers in the Credible Fear Review Process

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Organization

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USCIS and Reasonable Fear Interviews

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CBP’s Law Enforcement Role and History of Mistreatment of Asylum Seekers

Id. Id. About CBP supra

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See

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See, e.g. supra supra supra ‘You Don’t Have Any Rights Here’: Illegal Pushbacks, Arbitrary Detention & Ill-Treatment of Asylum-Seekers in the United States

supraCrossing the Line: U.S. Border Agents Illegally Reject Asylum Seekers

supra See

Leadership/Organization

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supra See, e.g. supra U.S. Border Agents Seen on Video Trying to

Deport a Man Who 'Looks Mexican'supra supra

supra Our Values on the Line: Migrant Abuse and Family Separation at the Border

Record of Abuse: Lawlessness and Impunity in Border Patrol’s Interior Enforcement Operations

In the Shadow of the Wall: Family Separation, Immigration Enforcement and Security

Bordering on Criminal: The Routine Abuse of Migrants in the Removal System

Inside the Secret Border Patrol Facebook Group Where Agents Joke About Migrant Deaths and Post Sexist Memes

Border Patrol agents allegedly tried to shame a migrant by making him hold a sign reading ‘I like men,’ emails show

Migrant kids in overcrowded Arizona border station allege sex assault, retaliation from U.S. agents

see Hungry, Scared and Sick: Inside the Migrant Detention Center in Clint, Tex.

See supra

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DHS Instructs CBP to Conduct Credible Fear Interviews

Presidential Memorandum on Additional Measures to Enhance Border Security and Restore Integrity to Our Immigration System

supra supra supra . Border patrol agents supra Stephen Miller supra U.S. asylum

screeners supra; White House backs Stephen Miller proposal to let Border Patrol agents to conduct asylum interviews .

supra .

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supra .supra . Border Patrol agents supra.

Id.

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Plaintiff American Immigration Council’s FOIA Request and Defendants’ Response

See

supra supra

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Id.

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Id. Id.

Id.

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Plaintiff Tahirih Justice Center’s FOIA Requests and Defendants’ Response

See

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Id.

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Id.

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/s/Claudia Valenzuela

* Application for admission pro hac vice forthcoming

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