New rules aim to decide US asylum cases in months, not years
Associated PressThe Biden administration on Thursday unveiled new procedures to handle asylum claims at the U.S. southern border, hoping to decide cases in months instead of years. The rules empower asylum officers to grant or deny claims, an authority that has been limited to immigration judges for people arriving at the border with Mexico. “The current system for handling asylum claims at our borders has long needed repair,” said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, whose department includes asylum officers at U.S. “Imposing unrealistic deadlines will lead to mistaken decisions, additional adjudication to correct those mistakes, and the improper return to persecution of people who qualify for asylum.” Those wanting tougher limits on U.S. immigration said they feared asylum officers weren’t as prepared to detect fraudulent claims as immigration judges, something agency officials said wasn’t the case.
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