Washington, June 26 (IANS) The Trump administration has effectively closed the United States to asylum seekers and will continue expanding deportations, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said, outlining the administration’s hardline immigration agenda.In an exchange with reporters at the White House, Miller said the administration has entered into agreements with other countries to receive people seeking asylum instead of allowing them to remain in the United States.”I think what’…
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Washington, May 20 (IANS) US Vice President JD Vance accused the previous Biden administration of allowing widespread abuse of the American asylum system and said the Trump administration was prosecuting immigration-related fraud while tightening border enforcement.Vance told reporters at a White House news conference that one of the “biggest immigration frauds” under former President Joe Biden was the handling of asylum claims at the southern border.“The biggest immigration fraud that exi…
Washington, Dec 30 (IANS) The Trump administration is moving to sharply restrict access to asylum by urging US immigration judges to dismiss cases without hearings and redirect migrants to third countries, a shift officials say is aimed at closing what they describe as a “huge loophole” in legal immigration, according to a report by Politico.The Department of Homeland Security has asked courts to summarily dismiss asylum applications and remove migrants to third countries where they could seek p…