In a strongly worded letter, the New York City Bar Association is calling on the Trump administration to restore humanitarian and due process protections to asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada borders who’ve allegedly been stripped of their legal rights by an administration misusing COVID-19 as a reason.

In a detailed, five-page letter addressed to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the bar association says that since mid-March some 40,000 people, including asylum seekers and unaccompanied children, have been expelled at border processing centers under new administration policies that flout U.S. and international law.

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