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Trump team wants to be able to reject asylum requests without interviewing migrants
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Donald Trump’s administration is considering a plan to summarily reject certain immigrants’ applications for asylum in the U.S. without even interviewing them, yet another escalation of the president’s campaign to deport at least 1 million people a year.
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ICE lawyers have been directed to develop “anti-fraud policies” to go after immigration attorneys under a federal law targeting document fraud.
They're also trying to prosecute attorneys who represent immigrants.