International aid groups and refugee resettlement organizations took a harsher tone: “This latest proclamation is an attempt to further eviscerate lawful immigration pathways under the false guise of national security,” said Sarah Mehta, the American Civil Liberties Union’s deputy director of policy and government affairs for immigration.
Governments scrambling to understand Trump's latest travel ban before it takes effect Monday
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"Federal interior checkpoints, state anti-immigrant policing and extreme abortion bans combine to create an unnecessary, stressful and dangerous web of barriers to abortion care for people living in border communities," said Sarah Mehta, senior border policy counsel at the ACLU.
Illegal immigrants in Texas struggle to get abortions, ACLU says
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