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Axios reports:
The Trump administration has posted a new regulation that will allow President Trump, via proclamation, to prohibit certain immigrants from seeking asylum, senior administration officials told reporters Thursday afternoon. This will allow Trump to block any immigrants who enter the U.S. illegally from receiving asylum, and comes as a caravan of Central Americans makes its way toward the U.S. border.
From Homeland Security head Kirstjen Nielsen and Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker:
Our asylum system is overwhelmed with too many meritless asylum claims from aliens who place a tremendous burden on our resources, preventing us from being able to expeditiously grant asylum to those who truly deserve it. Today, we are using the authority granted to us by Congress to bar aliens who violate a Presidential suspension of entry or other restriction from asylum eligibility.
BREAKING: The Trump administration is moving to prohibit people who illegally cross the U.S. border with Mexico from claiming asylum.
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) November 8, 2018
The Trump administration will dramatically cut back migrants’ ability to request asylum https://t.co/wkwzhMbpPl
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) November 8, 2018
Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, on Trump administration new asylum rule: “U.S. law specifically allows individuals to apply for asylum whether or not they are at a port of entry. It is illegal to circumvent that by agency or presidential decree.”
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) November 8, 2018
The Trump admin. released new immigration rules that block people from claiming asylum if they enter the U.S. outside legal ports of entry. Officials say the block is based on emergency powers President Trump issued to implement the 2017 travel ban. pic.twitter.com/uOegikA5dJ
— AJ+ (@ajplus) November 8, 2018