Effective implementation could relieve border pressures
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Press Release

 

 

For Immediate Release  
Contact: Dan Gordon , 617-651-0841
March 24, 2022

**Asylum Rule Will Institute a More Orderly, Humane Process** 

**WASHINGTON, D.C.**- Today the Department of Homeland Security has
posted a
new interim final rule on asylum ahead of publication in the Federal
Register next week.

The rule would significantly change the asylum process at the
U.S.-Mexico border. For example, it would allow U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services (USCIS) asylum officers to adjudicate the asylum
applications of some recent border-crossers, alleviating the immigration
court case backlog and lessening the wait time for families to have
their cases heard. Allowing USCIS to handle more of the asylum process
is a change the National Immigration Forum has **called for repeatedly**

to help address increases in migration at our southern border and lessen
the burden on our overwhelmed immigration courts.

The final rule includes several changes from the proposed rule

the administration posted last summer - changes that address some, but
not all, due process concerns the rule raises. For example, it allows
asylum seekers more room to request reconsideration and to provide
additional evidence for their cases. However, expedited court dates
likely will make it difficult for asylum seekers to access legal
representation.

The rule will go into effect 60 days from its publication in the federal
register, scheduled for Tuesday.

"This rule is an important step towards a more orderly and humane
immigration process at the border," said

**Ali Noorani, President and CEO of the National Immigration Forum**.
"As the administration implements the rule later this spring, we hope it
also takes steps to ensure that asylum seekers receive due process and
access to counsel. Effective implementation of the rule, combined with
improved legal immigration processes, can relieve pressures at our
borders."

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