Source: Immigration Impact
The Trump administrative began yet another asylum program on October 7 called “Prompt Asylum Case Review” (PACR) in the El Paso, Texas Border Patrol station. The program “seeks to speed families through the asylum process” by requiring an immigration judge to make an asylum decision within 10 days. Under the program, asylum seekers have to go to their credible fear interview while still in border patrol custody, and are only given 24 hours to call an attorney and prepare.
Further, there is a higher standard of finding a credible fear of persecution. When individuals fail their credible fear interview, they have the right to have their case reviewed by an immigration judge. However, most of these reviews are given telephonically, preventing individuals from presenting any documents as evidence. “The program entirely disregards due process for those who the asylum system was specifically designed to protect.”
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