Proposed Asylum “Transit Ban” Rule Violates Law, Endangers the Vulnerable, and Undermines U.S. Interests

WOLA submits official objection to the Biden Administration’s proposed rule.

On February 21, the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice introduced a draft rule ( “Notice of Proposed Rulemaking” ) that would deny the legal right to seek asylum to many migrants who passed through other countries on their way to the U.S.-Mexico border and did not first seek asylum in those countries.

The rule would partially shut down, to a historic and legally questionable extent, the right to seek asylum upon reaching U.S. soil, a legal right that was laid out in Section 208 of the Immigration and […]

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