U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf said the American Civil Liberties Union can proceed with the lawsuit, which accuses the government of unlawfully separating certain illegal immigrants from their families as they sought lawful residency. The lawsuit centers on regulations the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) enacted in 2016 during former Democratic President Barack Obama's administration that allowed certain non-citizens, who were married to U.S. citizens, to remain in the country while they applied for legal residency. The ACLU's lawsuit said the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under President Donald Trump was detaining people seeking to benefit from those regulations when they went to government offices as part of the legalization process.



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