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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 CRISTIAN DOE, DIANA DOE, Case No.: 19-cv-2119-DMS (AGS)

Petitioners-Plaintiffs,

ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR

v. CLASSWIDE PRELIMINARY

INJUNCTION

CHAD F. WOLF, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security; et al., 15 Respondents-Defendants. 16 17 On November 5, 2019, Petitioners filed a motion for class certification and a motion for temporary restraining order (“TRO”) to allow Petitioners access to their retained counsel prior to and during Petitioners’ non-refoulement interviews under the Government’s Migrant Protection Protocols Program (“MPP” or “Remain in Mexico”). Pursuant to the MPP, asylum seekers arriving at the United States Border by land from Mexico are returned to Mexico to await the outcome of their immigration proceedings. Bound by the duty of non-refoulement, however, Respondents may not return an asylum seeker to Mexico if the individual can show he or she faces persecution or torture in Mexico. Instead, the asylum seeker is…