Biden Administration Prepares Sweeping Change to Asylum Process
Posted by Emma Lombardo. Colgate class of 2022. Source: Sullivan, Eileen. “Biden Administration Prepares Sweeping Change to Asylum Process.” The New York Times, 24 Mar. 2022. Under the Biden administration’s new policy, immigrants seeking asylum in the United States will be able to have their claims evaluated by asylum officers instead of immigration judges. With more than 670,000 cases pending, this plan will take the burden off of backlogged immigration courts, as well as greatly shorten the process. The new process is…
