A group that represents immigration lawyers on Monday criticized the Trump administration's travel ban and new asylum ban on migrants from 19 countries and accused the policies of being outside the realm of judicial review.
Ben Johnson, director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, says the new polices will add to the backlog of immigration cases and will cause migrants who already have undergone years of vetting, to undergo additional evaluations.
Johnson questions how much this will cost the Department of Homeland Security and says it is unfair to ban migrants from applying for asylum simply because of their country of origin. And he says because the government is taking discretionary action, it is not subject to court approval.
In the latest edition of Border Report Live, South Texas Correspondent Sandra Sanchez talks about AILA's reaction to these policies, which were announced after the shooting of two West Virginia National Guard soldiers over the Thanksgiving holiday.
