Asylum News

Indigenous asylum seekers from Latin America often face language barriers and discrimination on their journey to the US. By Brian Osgood Published On 24 Jul 202324 Jul 2023 As the United States enacts numerous policies that… Read more: Aljazeera: Indigenous groups say they are left out of US immigration debate

The Biden administration changed the way “credible fear” interviews are conducted and raised the bar for who is eligible to seek asylum. By Eileen Sullivan Reporting from Washington July 22, 2023 In the first weeks after… Read more: Lawyers Say Helping Asylum Seekers in Border Custody Is Nearly Impossible –The New York Times

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 19, 2023 Contact: Kirsten Rambo, kirsten@asistahelp.org As documented by the Houston Chronicle and other outlets such as The Guardian and CNN, a trooper-medic with the Texas Department of Public Safety expressed concern to his supervisor earlier this month about the… Read more: Press Release: ASISTA Condemns Horrific, Inhumane Treatment of Migrants in Texas

The Washington Post, By Maria Sacchetti July 18, 2023  The Biden administration has declared that migrants are automatically ineligible for asylum if they enter the United States illegally or fail to seek asylum in another country… Read more: Biden’s asylum changes reduced border crossings. But are the rules legal?

Posted in Immigration Impact by Atenas Burrola Estrada | May 19, 2023 | Asylum, Due Process & the Courts, Humanitarian Protection If you are an asylum seeker in the United States who cannot afford an attorney, your chance of finding pro bono… Read more: Finding a Pro Bono Immigration Attorney Is Harder Than Ever

The required app often doesn’t work – and if it does it may send families a thousand miles along the border for their appointments. Read full story.

Posted by Dara Lind | Feb 22, 2023 | Asylum, Humanitarian Protection The Biden administration recently announced a proposed regulation that would all but eliminate access to asylum for the overwhelming number of asylum seekers who come to the United States… Read more: How To Seek Asylum (Under Biden’s Proposed Asylum Transit Ban), In 12 Not-At-All-Easy Steps

New York Tims, Feb. 21, 2023 The proposed rule, which has been opened for 30 days of public comment before taking effect, would presume that migrants are ineligible for asylum if they entered the country… Read more: Biden Administration Announces New Border Crackdown

Published Dec 6, 2022 The Immigration Court’s Dedicated Docket (DD) program was created by the Biden administration to speed the processing of families seeking asylum after arriving along the Southwest Border … … The end… Read more: A National Assessment of the Biden Administration’s Dedicated Docket Initiative — TRAC Immigration

By Amanda Coletta TORONTO — Advocates told Canada’s top court on Thursday that a nearly 20-year-old deal under which Canada and the United States share responsibility for migrants in need of protection should be struck… Read more: Canada’s top court hears that U.S. is unsafe for asylum seekers — The Washington Post

Modified: August 16, 2022 Published: June 11, 2020 This fact sheet provides an overview of the asylum system in the United States, including how asylum is defined, eligibility requirements, and the application process.

Aug 9, 2022 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security said Monday that it ended a Trump-era policy requiring asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court, hours after a judge… Read more: Biden administration ends Trump-era ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy– PBS NewsHour

BY STEPHEN YALE-LOEHR for The Hill Since March 2020, approximately 900,000 people — including over 215,000 parents and children — have been denied the ability to request asylum at all. They’re casualties of Title 42, a pandemic-related… Read more: Ending Title 42 won’t cause immigration mayhem — It will restore order

Biden Can End Abusive ‘Remain in Mexico’ Program, but Title 42 Expulsions Continue By Ari Sawyer for Human Rights Watch The United States Supreme Court ruled on June 30 that President Joe Biden can end the Migrant… Read more: Victory for Asylum Seekers in US Supreme Court

By Megan K. Stack for the New York Times July 2, 2022 Let’s at least stop being disingenuous. Let’s admit that our asylum process has become a myth and that we are the most flagrant undoers… Read more: Let’s Not Pretend We’re Keeping Our Promises on Asylum

(Update: The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a request to put the lower court’s ruling on hold, keeping Title 42 in place for now while the issue is being litigated.)The Centers for Disease Control and… Read more: Judge says CDC can’t end the Title 42 rule that allows for quick expulsion of migrants – CBS News, May 20, 2022

By Mary Beth Sheridan April 11, 2022  As criminal groups battle for control over Mexican territory, the displaced are becoming increasingly visible, in towns such as Coahuayana and at the U.S. border. An estimated 20,000 people… Read more: The war next door: Conflict in Mexico is displacing thousands

For two years, under a policy known as Title 42, the US government has used the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to close its southern border to asylum seekers. This devastating policy has exposed highly vulnerable people… Read more: The human cost of Title 42: Stories from the US-Mexico border – Doctors Without Borders USA, March 28, 2022

Published:  January 7, 2022 In December 2018, the Trump administration announced the creation of a new program called the “Migrant Protection Protocols” (MPP 1.0)—often referred to as the “Remain in Mexico” program. The program went… Read more: FACT SHEET:The “Migrant Protection Protocols”

The Arizona Welcoming Task Force (AZWTF) resolutely echoes the sentiments of our fellow humanitarian and legal service providers in California, who earlier this month released a joint statement calling on the Biden administration to reopen legal pathways for those seeking asylum in the United States…

By FRANCO ORDOÑEZ for NPR July 28, 2021 The White House is moving forward on a plan to have Department of Homeland Security asylum officers take over cases on the southern United States border, a… Read more: A White House Plan Aims To Speed Up Consideration Of Many Asylum Claims

A young man from eastern Africa fleeing decades of horrific persecution has been granted political asylum, thanks to representation by a motivated law student with no prior experience in asylum law. Nick Bauman, then a… Read more: East African man granted asylum after escaping slavery

Excerpt: Odds of Gaining Asylum Five Times Higher When Represented: Without (legal) representation, the deck is stacked against an asylum seeker. Statistically, only one out of every ten win their case. With representation, nearly half… Read more: Asylum Representation Rates Have Fallen Amid Rising Denial Rates – A TRAC Immigration Report (2017)