Saboor’s son asks him one question over and over. When can they go to the United States? The Afghan family – Saboor, his wife, and their 11-year-old son – has been stranded in Mexico since Donald Trump returned to office more than a year ago and suspended asylum access at the southern border. The boy, … Read more
CBS News has learned exclusively that the Trump administration is putting together a plan that would allow immigration officials to swiftly reject some asylum claims without interviewing applicants. CBS News immigration correspondent Camilo Montoya-Galvez has the details. Source link
A Trump administration plan would allow asylum officers to issue quick rejections without conducting interviews, according to internal documents. CBS News’ Camilo Montoya-Galvez has more. Source link
The Trump administration is developing a plan that would allow U.S. immigration officials to quickly reject some asylum applications without interviewing the applicants, according to internal federal government documents obtained by CBS News. The Department of Homeland Security regulation described in the internal documents would be the latest effort by President Trump’s White House to … Read more
MALABO, Equatorial Guinea — At first glance, the hotel looks like any other on this tropical island off the Central African coast, with its palm tree-lined driveway, marble-floored foyer and portrait of the oil-rich country’s president hanging behind a mahogany reception desk. Yet the eerily empty Bamy Hotel is not a refuge for adventure-seeking tourists … Read more
The Trump administration is cracking down on immigration lawyers suspected of improperly filing asylum claims for their clients. In a memo dated Tuesday, the top lawyer for the Department of Homeland Security called on ICE lawyers to increase enforcement. CBS News homeland security correspondent Nicole Sganga has the exclusive. Source link
SAN FRANCISCO — There are no immigrants waiting for rulings anymore at San Francisco’s main immigration court, no lawyers making arguments. The court, which had 21 judges when President Donald Trump was sworn in last year, had only two left when it closed May 1. The rest had been fired, retired or resigned amid a … Read more
WASHINGTON — An appeals court on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order suspending asylum access, a key pillar of the Republican president’s plan to crack down on migration at the southern border of the U.S. A three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found that immigration laws … Read more
Washington — A federal appeals court on Friday blocked President Trump’s directive suspending access to asylum and other legal protections for migrants unlawfully crossing the southern border. A divided panel of three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that federal immigration law does not allow the president … Read more
A Venezuelan man pleaded his case to asylum officials on Thursday in an interview that his wife, a well-known doctor in South Texas, planned to attend until she was detained at the airport with the couple’s 5-year-old daughter. Milenko Faria was interviewed at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offices near Los Angeles, while his … Read more