Asylum Procedures

CGRS Director Professor Karen Musalo joined refugee and human rights law experts in a letter urging Congress to reject proposals that would effectively dismantle the U.S. asylum system.

We joined a statement to Congress expressing extreme concern over proposals that would devastate the U.S. asylum process and harm asylum seekers and other vulnerable immigrants.

This memo outlines the ways in which the legislative proposals advanced by Senators Lankford and Cotton during budget negotiations would violate U.S. obligations to refugees under international law.

We joined a letter to President Biden urging the administration to reject funding and policy proposals that would eviscerate access to asylum.

We submitted our analysis of the Joint Interim Final Rule, urging the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security to make improvements to the Rule to ensure that asylum seekers are not rushed through a process with a high risk of mistaken decisions resulting in return to their country of origin.

CGRS Managing Attorney Neela Chakravartula summarizes two major federal court rulings on the legality of Title 42, explains what these rulings mean for people seeking asylum, and describes what comes next.

We submitted a statement for the record to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship, calling on Congress to pass legislation to create an independent immigration court and ensure that immigration courts fairly adjudicate all asylum claims.

This memo outlines CGRS's recommendations for six specific non-partisan priority actions the United States can take to rebuild the U.S. asylum system in the next presidential term.

This article surveys Matter of A-B-'s impact in its first year, discusses how it has fared in the federal courts, and argues that Congress must act to ensure that gender-based violence claims are adjudicated in a manner consistent with international law.

We submitted a comment analyzing and urging the Biden administration to withdraw its proposed rule creating a new system for adjudication of asylum, withholding of removal, and Convention Against Torture (CAT) claims, which undermines U.S. legal obligations to protect refugees.