Asylum ‘Rocket Dockets’ Confront Some Speed Bumps
Attempting to catch up with a growing backlog of some 900,000 cases, immigration courts in 10 U.S. cities are giving…
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Asylum Officers
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…
5 years ago
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…
5 years ago
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…
5 years ago
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…
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