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Reuters got the receipts showing just how much of a sham the process for sending people to Guatemala will be; just like MPP:

“Asylum officers were instructed not to ask migrants whether they have a fear of being sent to Guatemala.”

Think of the cruelty it takes to order that.
Read the new training materials that Asylum Officers will get for the new screening process to send asylum seekers to Guatemala.
In many, many, ways, the Trump administration’s war on asylum is part and parcel of their war on LGBTQ+ rights.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
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This is pure Orwell.

Internal DHS reports indicate that no one at DHS knows what will actually happen to refugees forcibly deported to Guatemala and required to seek asylum there.

Training materials released yesterday show DHS is uninterested in safety.

Don’t believe him.
As Acting DHS Secretary Wolf says that “keeping migrants safe is a top goal of DHS,” here are the leaked training materials I broke down yesterday, showing how his agency had set an impossible bar to avoid deportation to Guatemala, including forbidding access to lawyers.
And here is the report that despite no one at DHS knowing what’s going to happen to people sent to Guatemala, DHS is moving forward anyway, regardless of consequences.

It is patently clear that “keeping migrants safe” is not a priority for DHS.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
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This is an invaluable leak. These training materials give us an inside view of the ways that the US will implement its “Safe third country” deal with Guatemala—who DHS will apply it to and how.

They also reveal a sham process, designed to generate denials at any cost.

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Here is the most important slide: a list of who will be sent to Guatemala (at least for now).

Worth noting that none of these “amenable populations” and “exceptions” are actually listed in the US/Guatemala deal—though there are likely secret agreements between the countries.
Just as those lists of “amenable populations” and “exceptions” seem to have been manufactured at DHS’s discretion, the training materials also reveal that the decision to start the process to send someone to Guatemala is entirely in the hands of CBP officers at the border.
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Looks like DOJ is trying to impose A.G. Barr's Matter of M-S- and overturn our injunction by regulatory fiat, stripping IJs of the authority to hear bond cases for previously-eligible asylum seekers that have been found to have a credible fear of persecution.
DOJ is also seeking to made more modifications to the asylum application, likely requiring more evidence be filed early in the process.
A new potential proposed regulation in the Unified Agenda relating to BIA appeals, to "ensure that immigration proceeding appeals are adjudicated in a consistent and timely manner," which makes me worried about the recent change allowing the Director to issue decisions.
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