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A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ruled that the Trump¹ administration cannot arbitrarily detain people seeking asylum². That ruling challenges the administration's practice of detaining people who are seeking asylum. NPR's Richard Gonzales has the story.

RICHARD GONZALES, BYLINE³: The lead plaintiff in this class action lawsuit⁴ is a teacher from Haiti, Ansley Damus. He has been detained in Ohio for more than a year and a half. In 2016, he fled Haiti fearing violence and political persecution⁵ and asked for asylum in the United States. An immigration judge granted him asylum - not just once but twice. But Damus remains⁶ locked up as the government appeals those decisions. On Monday, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled that the Trump administration is violating its own procedures by not granting Damus' release. Cecillia Wang is deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, one of the groups that are a part of the lawsuit.

CECILLIA WANG: The ruling in the Damus case stands for the principle that the government cannot apply a blanket policy of detaining asylum-seekers for the purpose of deterring⁷ people from coming into the United States to seek asylum.

GONZALES: Typically, asylum-seekers must pass a credible⁸ fear interview to convince authorities that they face a threat of persecution at home. If immigration officials approve that, people are usually eligible⁹ to be released from detention¹⁰ while they're waiting to be granted asylum. But according to the ACLU lawsuit, under the Trump administration, that's not the case. In several ICE field offices - Detroit, El Paso, Los Angeles, Newark and Philadelphia - virtually no asylum-seekers were released after they proved they had a credible fear of persecution - Cecillia Wang.

WANG: We had a clear record, as the court noted¹¹, showing that in these five ICE field offices there was really a very clear pattern that what previously¹² had resulted in release of asylum-seekers at a rate of about 90 percent, based on individualized consideration, really dwindled¹³ down to near zero.

GONZALES: As a result, Judge Boasberg ordered the government to conduct case-by-case reviews of more than 1,000 other asylum-seekers in those five ICE field officers who have been denied release. A spokesman for the Justice Department declined to comment.

Richard Gonzales, NPR News.

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1 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

2 asylum   

n.避难所，庇护所，避难

参考例句：

• The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
• Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。

3 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

4 lawsuit   

n.诉讼，控诉

参考例句：

• They threatened him with a lawsuit.他们以诉讼威逼他。
• He was perpetually involving himself in this long lawsuit.他使自己无休止地卷入这场长时间的诉讼。

5 persecution   

n. 迫害,烦扰

参考例句：

• He had fled from France at the time of the persecution. 他在大迫害时期逃离了法国。
• Their persecution only serves to arouse the opposition of the people. 他们的迫害只激起人民对他们的反抗。

6 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

7 deterring   

v.阻止，制止( deter的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• However, investors say are a number of issues deterring business. 然而，投资者表示，有很多问题让他们却步。 来自互联网
• It's an effective way of deterring potential does online, the logic goes. 逻辑上这是抑制潜在线上威胁的有效方法。 来自互联网

8 credible   

adj.可信任的，可靠的

参考例句：

• The news report is hardly credible.这则新闻报道令人难以置信。
• Is there a credible alternative to the nuclear deterrent?是否有可以取代核威慑力量的可靠办法？

9 eligible   

adj.有条件被选中的；(尤指婚姻等)合适(意)的

参考例句：

• He is an eligible young man.他是一个合格的年轻人。
• Helen married an eligible bachelor.海伦嫁给了一个中意的单身汉。

10 detention   

n.滞留，停留；拘留，扣留；(教育)留下

参考例句：

• He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
• He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。

11 noted   

adj.著名的，知名的

参考例句：

• The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
• Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。

12 previously   

adv.以前，先前（地）

参考例句：

• The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
• Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。

13 dwindled   

v.逐渐变少或变小( dwindle的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Support for the party has dwindled away to nothing. 支持这个党派的人渐渐化为乌有。
• His wealth dwindled to nothingness. 他的钱财化为乌有。 来自《简明英汉词典》