ACLU of Louisiana Files Brief Supporting Asylum for Gay Refugee Fleeing Anti-LGBTQ Violence in Ghana
September 26, 2020
September 26, 2020
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Sept. 26 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana issued the following news release on Sept. 25:
The ACLU of Louisiana filed a friend-of-the-court brief at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals asking the Court to hold, once and for all, that LGBTQ+ people subject to persecution in their home countries are protected under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Up until now, unlike a number of its sister courts, the Fifth Circuit has not issued a de . . .
The ACLU of Louisiana filed a friend-of-the-court brief at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals asking the Court to hold, once and for all, that LGBTQ+ people subject to persecution in their home countries are protected under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Up until now, unlike a number of its sister courts, the Fifth Circuit has not issued a de . . .