Trump faces new lawsuit for locking up asylum seekers

RT reports:

A civil rights group has filed a lawsuit accusing President Donald Trump’s administration of illegally imprisoning asylum seekers. The group says the detentions violate the US Constitution and break immigration laws.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed the class action lawsuit on behalf of nine plaintiffs on Thursday. The group stated that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is locking up asylum seekers in defiance of the Fifth Amendment, which prohibits the government from depriving any person, irrespective of citizenship, of their liberty without due legal process.

The lawsuit concerns ICE field offices in California, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. One of the plaintiffs is Haitian asylum seeker Ansly Damus, who is said to be fleeing political persecution and faced threats to his life. He has been imprisoned in Ohio for more than 16 months while the government appeals his asylum case.

Who knew non-U.S. citizens have 14th and 5 Amendment rights?