The Biden Administration has announced that it will shift authority from immigration judges to decide asylum cases to asylum officers. The administration claims that this policy will make the process of applying for asylum “more efficient” and “ensure fairness.”
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) strongly disagrees, saying that the change will remove safeguards that prevent asylum fraud. CIS observes that “This is a plan to rubberstamp asylum grants and hide the disaster at the Southwest border by turning ‘illegal aliens’ into ‘asylum seekers’ with the stroke of a pen.”
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