DHS Announces Changes to Asylum Regulations, Making It Harder to Obtain and Expediting Border Deportations
The DHS announces changes to asylum regulations that will make it harder to obtain asylum and accelerate deportations at the border. The Biden administration announced new restrictions on asylum policy, granting more discretionary power to federal immigration agents to reject petitions and expedite deportations.
“This rule would allow DHS (Department of Homeland Security – DHS) to more quickly remove those who are subject to bans and pose a risk to our national or public security.”
The changes, which have been under consideration for months and were acknowledged by Biden during an exclusive interview with Univision in March, are part of the White House’s strategy to reduce the crisis at the southern border, which has seen historic levels of detentions (encounters), deportations, referrals to immigration courts, and successful illegal crossings in the last three years.
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The crisis has also highlighted the federal government’s lack of responsiveness in handling over 6 million detentions at the border, where in most cases foreigners are fleeing their countries for various reasons and seeking asylum in the United States.
The DHS also stated that federal law “bars asylum and withholding of removal to individuals who pose a risk to national or public security, specifically those who have been convicted of a particularly serious crime, engaged in the persecution of others, are inadmissible on national security or terrorism-related grounds, or for whom there are reasonable grounds to believe are a danger to the security of the United States.”
It added that while any individual deemed to pose a threat to public safety is detained, “eligibility determination for asylum is not currently made until a later stage of the process: at the merit adjudication stage of asylum applications and withholding of removal.” But the proposed rule today “will allow asylum officers to consider these bars to asylum and withholding of removal during the initial credible fear screening, which occurs shortly after a person is encountered.”
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