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Press Release

 

For Immediate Release  
Contact: Dan Gordon <mailto:[email protected]>,
617-651-0841 
Feb. 21, 2023

**We Need Functional Asylum Solutions, Not Restrictive Policies**  

**WASHINGTON, D.C.** - A rule scheduled for publication Thursday
would restrict asylum access for migrants who cross into the U.S.
without authorization and fail to apply for protections in another
country before arriving at the border.  

A similar rule put forward by the Trump administration was struck down
in the courts.  

"We urge the administration to ensure that people with valid asylum
claims can bring those claims in the U.S., consistent with our
nation's long-cherished role as a beacon of safety and freedom for
people facing persecution," said 

**Jennie Murray, President and CEO of the National Immigration
Forum**. "The administration should modify this rule to preserve
longstanding asylum protections. 

"Although this new measure seems to be billed as temporary, a policy can
be difficult to end once it is implemented. The Biden administration -
and Congress - should consider alternative measures to make our asylum
system more functional. 

"Our policies should prioritize legal pathways that relieve pressure on
the border and on the asylum system. Migrants seeking asylum deserve
solutions that protect them, not policies that make it easier to deport
them to countries where their safety could be in jeopardy."  

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