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General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: rangerrebew on July 16, 2019, 03:28:44 pm

Title: Most Migrants at Border With Mexico Would Be Denied Asylum Protections Under New Trump Rule
Post by: rangerrebew on July 16, 2019, 03:28:44 pm

Most Migrants at Border With Mexico Would Be Denied Asylum Protections Under New Trump Rule
 

By Michael D. Shear and Zolan Kanno-Youngs

    July 15, 2019
 

WASHINGTON — Long before a surge of migrants from Central America overwhelmed the southwestern border, the Trump administration was already waging a broad assault on the rules determining who can seek asylum in the United States.

But on Monday, the administration announced one of its most restrictive rules yet for a system, enshrined in international law, that Mr. Trump has called “ridiculous” and “insane.”

In a move that would stop virtually all Central American families who are fleeing persecution and poverty from entering the United States, Trump administration officials said they would deny asylum to migrants who failed to apply for protections in at least one country they passed through on their way north.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/15/us/politics/trump-asylum-rule.html?emc=rss&partner=rss (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/15/us/politics/trump-asylum-rule.html?emc=rss&partner=rss)