Fact sheet on asylum is very useful; largest number of ‘new’ Americans are Chinese
Posted by Ann Corcoran on September 21, 2018
A couple of days ago I reported on the Asylum process which is part of the Refugee Act of 1980. The difference from the US Refugee Admissions Program is that these wannabe ‘refugees’ are already in the US usually illegally and they claim they will be persecuted if returned home.
It is a huge backlog of cases that is concerning the Trump Administration and is why they say that a 30,000 cap on the refugees the UN/US State Department bring in to the country is all we can handle. I assume they are expecting more than the 20,000-30,000 asylum seekers who have been approved each year for the last ten will grow with their stepped- up processing.
I have no time to snip this Fact Sheet from the American Immigration Council on ‘Asylum in the US,’ but you will find it answers many of your questions.
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2018/09/21/fact-sheet-on-asylum-is-very-useful-largest-number-of-new-americans-are-chinese/
