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Trump accelerates deportation of asylum seekers in more areas of the border

2020-01-01T23:11:14.669Z


"A legal black hole," critics describe this program that prevents migrants from seeing a lawyer and receiving a 'credible fear interview'.


The Trump Administration has expanded the implementation of a program designed to accelerate the deportation of asylum seekers to the busiest region of the border, the CBS network reported Wednesday.

The Expedited Asylum Application Review (PACR) had been operating as a pilot program in El Paso, Texas, where some 1,000 migrants were deported following its implementation this 2019. At the beginning of December it was extended to the region from the valley of the Rio Grande.

Activists and lawyers defending the rights of migrants have criticized the measure, claiming that it denies asylum seekers the right to due process, restricts their right to see a lawyer and, consequently, condemns them to be deported.

The American Civil Liberties Association (ACLU) filed a lawsuit against the program earlier this month, qualifying the detention centers of the Office of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), where they are sent migrants subject to this program, such as “a black hole in legal matters”.

How does accelerated deportation of asylum seekers work?

Before the implementation of PACR in El Paso, and now in the Rio Grande Valley, migrants in custody of the CBP who were not subject to being sent to Mexico to wait for their asylum cases (under the Migrant Protection Protocols ) were taken to another government agency (ICE), where an asylum officer practiced a credible fear interview.

With the new program, the interview is conducted by CBP officers in their own facilities. This changes the process in two crucial aspects. A) Migrants do not have access to lawyers; B) the interview is more difficult to pass, as lawyers have explained to the aforementioned medium.

This is because migrants who passed through another country (such as Mexico) on their route to the United States are no longer eligible to apply for asylum since July 16, according to a rule that the Supreme Court has allowed, while their legality is discussed. In the minor courts.

Then, migrants subject to the PACR program can no longer apply for asylum in the traditional sense of the term. However, there are other protections that can be invoked, although they are more difficult to obtain.

Under the United Nations Organization's convention against torture, migrants can receive protection from deportation after a more rigorous interview than that of asylum for credible fear. In addition, they are not eligible for citizenship, unlike asylees. Another option is to ask the court to stop your removal.

Activists have pointed out to the aforementioned media that some migrants under the accelerated deportation program were expelled from the country in just two weeks, compared to the process of months or even years that an asylum case can take.

From the highest point in May, and after the introduction of dissuasive measures, the arrests of undocumented migrants on the Mexican border have declined for six consecutive months.

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ICE expands nationally the rapid deportation of undocumented immigrants

Source: telemundo

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