USCIS Considers Dismissing Asylum Claims for Those Who Entered the Country Illegally
Last week, CNN reported that U.S. Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) is considering dismissing asylum claims filed by people who arrived in the United States illegally. These are people who crossed the border illegally and subsequently requested asylum after being encountered by immigration authorities. Dismissal of these cases would render many of the claimants subject to expedited removal.
USCIS has neither confirmed nor denied this report. “President Trump and [DHS] Secretary [Kristi] Noem have given USCIS the ability to use all tools in our toolbox to ensure that the integrity of the immigration system is upheld, fraud is uncovered and expeditiously addressed, and illegal aliens are removed from the country,” said Matthew Tragesser, a spokesman for USCIS.
What is clear, is that the system was massively abused during the Biden administration by illegal aliens who entered the country illegally and filed frivolous asylum claims, knowing that in most cases they would be released into the U.S., granted work authorization, and be allowed to remain here for years while their cases worked their way through the legal system.
As of March, there were more than 2.1 million asylum claims pending in our immigration courts. The vast majority of asylum-seekers who entered the country illegally during the Biden administration had traveled through one or more safe countries without having sought protection before crossing into the U.S. This is a strong indication that they were economic migrants, not people who were truly escaping persecution at the hands of their governments.
https://www.fairus.org/news/executive/uscis-considers-dismissing-asylum-claims-those-who-entered-country-illegally
