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The #transitCoutryAsylumBan stripped asylum seekers of safe haven protection codified in INA. But the cruelty of it didnt stop there as @aflores points out: ppl who have satisfied the 'more likely' standard for withholding of removal (win their case) cannot provide derivative ...
... status to their spouses & minor kids (as asylum allows), thus resulting in the ultimate family separation w little relief at sight. 1/4
Because of recent AG precedental decisions designed to restrict asylum eligibility, family is no longer recognized as a PSG thus this 18yo cannot establish eligibility on account of her family ties alone to qualify for withholding in her own right. 2/4
@TalKopan first broke the news of the EOIR replacement of in-person interpreter w a video advisals. I just read the scripts for detained and non-detained cases and they are so F*ing misleading. Just wow!
First, advisals are unduly long & complicated. Substantively they are mucho problematic. For example both detained & non-detained are told they have to select country of removal. They dont. In fact, selecting country of origins could be used as a factor undermining fear of return 
Second, advising ppl that if they are ordered removed they would be removed to the country sected convey a misleading choice. If you are from Guatemala but just select to be removed to France, is just not gonna happen.
