Attempting to catch up with a growing backlog of some 900,000 cases, immigration courts in 10 U.S. cities are giving priority to hearing asylum claims. But…
Apparently, the asylum officer corps at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services needs collective re-training on our nation’s obligations relating to the protection of the persecuted. Of…
At one time in my career as a foreign service officer I was assigned consular work approving or rejecting immigrant and nonimmigrant visa requests. I found…
The Washington Post recently featured an op-ed titled, “I Became an Asylum Officer to Help People. Now I Put Them Back in Harm’s Way.” It was…
Opponents of the Trump administration have filed suit to block the president’s Migration Protection Protocols (MPP) program – known colloquially as the “stay in Mexico program.”…