Executive Branch Comment

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CGRS Comment in Response to DHS and DOJ Request for Comments: Securing the Border, 89 FR 48710 and Presidential Proclamation, 89 FR 48487

Executive Branch Comment
Jul 03, 2024

We submitted our analysis of the government's interim final rule that essentially closes off asylum during "emergency border circumstances." Our comment urges the government to withdraw the rule in its entirety.

CGRS Comment in Response to DHS Request for Comments: Application of Certain Mandatory Bars in Fear Screenings, 89 Fed. Reg. 41347

Executive Branch Comment
Jun 12, 2024

We submitted our analysis of the government's proposed rule permitting asylum officers to consider the applicability of statutory bars during initial fear screenings. Our comment urges the government to withdraw the rule in its entirety.

CGRS Comment in Response to DHS Request for Comments: Procedures for Credible Fear Screening and Consideration of Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and CAT Protection Claims by Asylum Officers, 87 Fed. Reg. 18078

Executive Branch Comment
May 26, 2022

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 Comment in Response to DHS Request for Comments: Procedures for Credible Fear Screening and Consideration of Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and CAT Protection Claims by Asylum Officers

Executive Branch Comment
Oct 19, 2021

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.

CGRS Comment in Response to DHS and DOJ Request for Comments: Circumvention of Lawful Pathways, 88 Fed. Reg. 31314

Executive Branch Comment
Jun 14, 2023

We submitted our analysis of the government's final "asylum ban" rule, which bars from asylum most people seeking protection at the U.S. southern border. Our comment urges the agencies to withdraw the rule in its entirety.

CGRS Comment in Response to DHS and DOJ Request for Comments: Circumvention of Lawful Pathways, 88 Fed. Reg. 11704

Executive Branch Comment
Mar 27, 2023

We submitted our analysis of the government's proposed "asylum ban" rule, which would bar from asylum most people seeking protection at the U.S. southern border. Our comment urges the agencies to withdraw the rule in its entirety.

CGRS Comment in Response to DHS Request for Input: Identifying Recommendations to Support the Work of the Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families

Executive Branch Comment
Jan 25, 2022

CGRS urges the Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families to review all aspects of U.S. asylum law and policy that deliberately or inadvertently lead to family separation, and to make recommendations that will put families at the center of protection.