From Massachusetts-The Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts is among the 75 religious organizations to file a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit challenging President Donald Trump’s use of emergency powers to secure funds to build an expanded wall along the U.S. southern border with Mexico.
In his appendix entry to the brief,
Diocesan Bishop Douglas Fisher calls Trump’s action “a clear violation”
of the right of Congress to approve how funds from the U.S. Treasury are
to be spend.
"The President's use of
government funds for building the southern border wall is a clear
violation of the Congress' power of the purse,” Fisher’s statement
reads.
“The situation at our southern
border may quite rightly be seen as a crisis as the President's policy
shifts have stranded asylum seekers in Mexico for an indeterminate time.
The impact of his change to national policy has endangered the lives of
people who seek safety here. What has been done to the children under
orders from the President, is immoral and an affront to human dignity. I
join this amicus brief on behalf of the Episcopalians in Western
Massachusetts who have promised to uphold the dignity of every human
being."
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