Comment on the Proposed Rule by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) on Circumvention of Lawful Pathways
EL PASO, TX —In February 2023, the Biden administration proposed a regulation that would require U.S. officials to presume that any individual who transited through other countries or crossed the U.S.-Mexico border without authorization is ineligible for asylum. On Monday, March 28, 2023, Las Americas Legal Director Jennifer Babaie and Staff Attorney Heidi Cerneka submitted to the Federal Register a comment explaining how the proposed regulation violates U.S. asylum and places in serious harm the very people most at need of protection in our hemisphere.