Asylum Rates Plummet Thanks to Secret Orders From Trump Officials
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U.S. immigration judges have essentially been told that they cannot grant asylum to immigrants, The New York Times reported Thursday. In a previously unreported whistleblower letter to Congress, a military lawyer who served as a temporary immigration judge before being fired, quoted an official who’d offered a frank—and dark—description of the standard for granting asylum under the Trump administration: “Maybe if you were Jewish and escaping Nazi Germany in 1943, you should get it.” Illegally
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