Impact of Sessions' asylum move already felt at border

Article publisher: 
CNN
Article date: 
15 July 2018
Article category: 
National News
Tags: 
border
immigration
asylum
Medium
Article Body: 

Immigrants [illegal aliens] are already being turned away at the border under Attorney General Jeff Sessions' recent reinterpretation of asylum law. And advocates for them fear there may be no end to it anytime soon. ...

Sessions' consequential decision

Sessions sent a shock wave through the immigration advocacy community last month when he reversed a previous immigration court opinion that victims of gangs and domestic violence can qualify to stay in the US under asylum protections for immigrants fearful of persecution in their home countries.
 
Using his position's unique power over the immigration courts, the attorney general ruled that most such victims will not qualify, a decision immigration judges nationwide were immediately bound to follow.
 
But Sessions' decision went beyond the courts and crime victims. He wrote that his interpretation of the law should also apply to the first interviews asylum seekers at the border are given to allow them to pursue their claims in court. He also suggested that immigrants who enter the country illegally could be rejected because they did, even if their claims are otherwise valid. ...
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