Asylum Applicants May Face New Rules From AG Sessions

Under the current U.S. immigration system, the U.S. Attorney General (AG) has substantial power to direct the interpretation of immigration laws. Current AG Jeff Sessions has taken recent actions to adjust the way that immigration courts decide asylum claims, which immigration advocates are fearing will make it much more difficult for immigrants to gain asylum in the U.S. Sessions has utilized a little-known authority to actually refer two decisions from the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), the appellate division of the immigration court system, to himself, both of which involve asylum claims. In the first case, Sessions has overturned a BIA ruling from 2014, which stated that all asylum claims are entitled to a hearing prior to a decision. Sessions claims that the precedent-setting ruling that he now has overturned only added unnecessary cases to an already-overburdened immigration court docket. Asylum Applicants May Face New Rules From AG Sessions In the other case,…

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