Family-Based Asylum to be Curtailed?
January 22, 2019
IRLI makes the case for realism in the asylum process
WASHINGTON – Responding to an invitation by Acting Attorney General Whitaker, the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a case the Attorney General has referred from the Board of Immigration Appeals to himself. The Attorney General sought briefing on when, and under what circumstances, an alien may be eligible for asylum in America because of persecution in his home country against his family.
Claims of family-based persecution back home are proliferating at the border. They rely on the theory that a family unit counts as a “particular social group†in asylum law. Under this theory, for example, if an alien and multiple members of the alien’s family have been victims of a particular criminal or criminal gang, and the government has failed to punish the perpetrators, then the alien has suffered persecution, ascribable to the government, on account of the alien’s membership in a “particular social group†– the alien’s family – and is eligible for asylum in the United States.
http://www.irli.org/single-post/2019/01/22/Family-Based-Asylum-to-be-Curtailed
