Attempting to catch up with a growing backlog of some 900,000 cases, immigration courts in 10 U.S. cities are giving priority to hearing asylum claims. But…
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Asylum ‘Rocket Dockets’ Confront Some Speed Bumps
Asylum Officers: Truth vs. Personal Ideology
Apparently, the asylum officer corps at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services needs collective re-training on our nation’s obligations relating to the protection of the persecuted. Of…
Asylum Decisions Must Be Guided by the Law
At one time in my career as a foreign service officer I was assigned consular work approving or rejecting immigrant and nonimmigrant visa requests. I found…
Asylum Officers, Do What America Pays You to Do
The Washington Post recently featured an op-ed titled, “I Became an Asylum Officer to Help People. Now I Put Them Back in Harm’s Way.” It was…
Asylum Officers Work for the American People, Not Foreign Nationals
Opponents of the Trump administration have filed suit to block the president’s Migration Protection Protocols (MPP) program – known colloquially as the “stay in Mexico program.”…