Jeff Sessions is at it again.... tryijg to rewrite the immigration law into deportation law without Congress.
He's going to try to make asylum even harder by removing duress exceptions to the persecutor bar.
What does this mean?
He's going to try to make asylum even harder by removing duress exceptions to the persecutor bar.
What does this mean?
To win asylum, you can't persecute anyone. That makes good sense, of course.
But what if the fear you have is that a persecutor - a gang, a warlord, a terrorist group - forced you to do something for them under threat of torture or death? That changes things, of course.
But what if the fear you have is that a persecutor - a gang, a warlord, a terrorist group - forced you to do something for them under threat of torture or death? That changes things, of course.
Under this decision, Sessions wants to try remove those duress exceptions.
So a prison guard forced to work and escapes would be sent back to his persecutors. It's one thing if he willingly did it. But disallowing people forced to do dirty work kills the spirit of asylum.
So a prison guard forced to work and escapes would be sent back to his persecutors. It's one thing if he willingly did it. But disallowing people forced to do dirty work kills the spirit of asylum.
It will grant immigration judges even more leeway to deny - perhaps without a full hearing - or even be denied credible fear, preventing people from even applying for asylum.
This is yet another attack on #DueProcess.
This is NOT who we want to be.
This is yet another attack on #DueProcess.
This is NOT who we want to be.
