Trump Administration Rule Change Could Push Asylum Applicants Directly to Deportation Proceedings
New rules would send more asylum cases to immigration courts, where approvals are at their lowest rate in at least 20 years, officials and analysts said.
- On Tuesday, July 28, the Trump administration implemented a rule allowing asylum officers to refer applications directly to immigration courts, bypassing traditional in-person interviews for hundreds of thousands of applicants.
- Officials claim the rule addresses the 1.4 million pending asylum cases at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services , with a government document estimating the change impacts nearly 445,000 people, just over 30% of the affirmative asylum backlog.
- Legal experts warn the policy removes critical asylum officer reviews; immigration attorney Ruby Powers in Texas described it as "almost like a war on asylum," arguing the court process often lacks counsel for vulnerable applicants.
- Asylum approvals have reached their lowest point in two decades according to federal data, while the administration replaced over 170 immigration judges and expanded mass hearings cramming more than 100 cases per proceeding.
- These changes coincide with broader restrictions on humanitarian programs, including limited refugee resettlement, as thousands of Temporary Protected Status holders now seek asylum as one of the few remaining avenues for legal status.
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Trump administration rule change could push asylum applicants directly to deportation proceedings
WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The Trump administration issued a new rule July 28 that could send hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers directly into deportation proceedings, a policy change that Catholic immigration advocates warned could leave many applicants at risk of deportation before their applications are even considered. The Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services cast the rule change as an effort to re…
He knows what Joseph Edlow said about the misuse of asylum and the Uscis rule that allows cases to be referred without prior interview.
Abuses, excesses and rights violations are a constant in the ICE operations in the United States, driven by the government.
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