It's official: We've blocked President Trump from using unauthorized funds to build his border wall. Permanently.
The decision came after we temporarily blocked wall construction for the first time.
President Trump repeatedly failed to get congressional approval on wall funding, throughout a months-long budget battle and the longest government shutdown in history. He tried to use unauthorized funds to build it anyway, declaring a bogus national emergency and violating the basic constitutional principle of checks and balances in the process.
Contrary to the national emergency declaration, the biggest border crisis is one of Trump's own making: the child abuse, neglect, and deplorable conditions in immigrant detention centers.
Children are being held in conditions that violate the Flores agreement, a set of legal guidelines that provide humane conditions for immigrant children in detention. In fact, the Trump administration is now attempting to dismantle Flores, arguing that they don't need to provide basic toiletries to keep children clean.
Meanwhile, at least six children have died in U.S. government custody. Detention facilities are dangerously overcrowded, food and water are insufficient, sleeping conditions and sanitation are deeply inadequate. This is the border crisis.
The government must provide dignified shelter and care to all people, including those accessing their legal right to seek asylum and refuge here. We need full transparency from Homeland Security as well its sub-agencies, ICE and CBP, and hold them accountable for countless immigrant abuses committed on their watch.
Whether or not this administration addresses these very real border crises, the ACLU and our four million supporters – supporters like you, who make this work possible – will continue defending the civil rights and liberties ensured to all of us in the Constitution.
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