Their Views Friday, August 3, 2018, 12:05 a.m. Share this story Here’s the cold, hard, disheartening reality about the Trump administration’s policies toward those arriving at the nation’s borders seeking asylum: Many more people with legitimate claims are likely being sent home to perilous conditions despite federal and international laws recognizing the right of the persecuted to seek sanctuary in other countries. That is unconscionable. The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, which collects and aggregates a wide range of federal data, reports that immigration judges — who work for the Justice Department, not the federal courts — are granting asylum seekers’ appeals half as often as they did a year ago. Through June, courts revived less than 15 percent of the asylum claims that had been rejected by immigration agents, who make the initial determination whether an asylum seeker had a credible fear … [Read more...] about Trump is winning his crusade against asylum seekers
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“Come Back Later”: Challenges for Asylum Seekers at U.S. Ports of Entry
At the height of the Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy at the U.S.-Mexico border, Trump administration officials have justified the US’s disgraceful detention and deportation policies under the pretext that these families and individuals are passing the border ‘illegally,’ that is, between ports of entry. Rightly so, the media has focused primarily on the consequences of detention, namely family-separation and the inhumane conditions in detention centers. Less scrutiny has been given to the inefficient and technically illegal practices occurring at ports of entry across the border. Officials at Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have been on the offensive in delaying and preventing the processing of families seeking to petition for asylum. Ranging from leaving families out in the sun and heat for days as they wait to enter the U.S. to misinforming migrants on their rights to come onto US land and request asylum, CBP actions at ports of … [Read more...] about “Come Back Later”: Challenges for Asylum Seekers at U.S. Ports of Entry
California Clinic Screens Asylum Seekers For Honesty
OAKLAND, Calif. — Dr. Nick Nelson walks through busy Highland Hospital to a sixth-floor exam room, where he sees patients from around the world who say they have fled torture and violence. Nelson, who practices internal medicine, is the medical director of the Highland Human Rights Clinic, part of the Alameda Health System. A few times each week, he and his team conduct medical evaluations of people who are seeking asylum in the United States. The doctors listen to the patients’ stories. They search for signs of trauma. They scrutinize injuries, including electrocution scars, bullet wounds and unset broken bones. As the Trump administration looks to reduce the number of asylum applicants, citing loopholes and fraudulent claims, this clinic — and others like it in San Diego, Los Angeles, New York and Chicago — seeks evidence that can help determine whether someone should gain asylum in the U.S. The Highland clinic opened in 2001 as a place for asylum seekers and … [Read more...] about California Clinic Screens Asylum Seekers For Honesty
The economics of asylum seekers
Suddenly, our country has been plunged into a crisis not of its doing, a crisis that has placed Malta's name in ignominy all over the world. Portrayed by the new Italian government, especially deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini, as an insensitive country which shies away from doing its duty, and then slandered all over Italian private television as a lush country where we all have luxury yachts, SUVs where we are all young and blonde when nothing is furthest from the truth. There are so many loose ends in this matter that one hesitates where to start from. It is an indisputable fact that the tidal wave of asylum seekers from the trouble spots of the world have focused on Europe as a soft target. The wave, at first from embattled Syria became one interminable horde walking all the way from Turkey to Germany and onwards. Then people from other trouble spots like Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa and sub-Saharan countries joined up. When the Balkan route was blocked up, the Mediterranean … [Read more...] about The economics of asylum seekers
Asylum seekers at the border
June 04. 2018 11:20PM To the Editor: At our Mexican border are asylum-seeking families whose children are being taken from them and placed somewhere by our U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. I’ve heard President Trump call it an intended “warning” to the parents. He wants to deter the asylum seekers, some number of whom are fleeing such dangers to their lives that the journey north to our border is their last resort.I’ve just returned from visiting relatives in Lithuania. New country for me, though amazingly it’s like New England, with the lilacs just opening when we were there. Most villages have a sign somewhere with the word for “genocide” displayed. Lithuania suffered high numbers of people, both Jewish and gentile, lost to murder and in large-pit burials by either the Nazis or later the Soviets.According to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, in the definition listing acts that are genocide, … [Read more...] about Asylum seekers at the border