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Far from Safety: Dangers and Limits to Protection for Asylum Seekers Transiting through Latin America

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Author: 
Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS)
Date: 
Apr 21, 2023
Language: 
English
Issue Area: 
Country Conditions
U.S.-Mexico Border
Country: 
Belize
Colombia
Costa Rica
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Publication Type: 
Report

This report covers the legal and policy context of the Biden administration’s proposed "asylum ban" and highlights nine transit countries' inability to protect asylum seekers. It also provides recommendations to the U.S. government based on its legal and moral obligations to refugees.

Attachments: 
Download Transit Countries Report_4.21.23_FINAL.pdf