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New Border Program Puts Asylum Seekers on Fast Track to Deportation. Trump administration policy dramatically limits time migrants have to prove they should be granted asylum; critics say it circumvents due process
Wall Street Journal ^ | February 28, 2020 | Michelle Hackman

Posted on 02/28/2020 8:15:09 AM PST by karpov

When Juliana Garcia crossed the U.S.-Mexico border with her 8-year-old daughter, Glendy, in December, she hoped to find safety and build a new life with her father living in Tennessee.

But Ms. Garcia and her daughter remained in the U.S. just 25 days before being returned to Guatemala. Based on where they crossed the border, near El Paso, Texas, the two were placed in an experimental Trump administration program designed to give asylum seekers brief and rapid access to the U.S. legal system—and deport them quickly if the government finds they don’t qualify for protection.

A review of the Garcias’ case provides a rare look at the program’s structure, which has processed several thousand people to date, and the hurdles it presents for asylum seekers and their lawyers.

The program, known as the Prompt Asylum Claim Review, or PACR, streamlines the process of applying for asylum so that applicants receive a decision in a matter of days, rather than the months or years it typically takes for a case to work its way through the backlogged immigration-court system.

The U.S. government quietly launched the PACR program in El Paso in October and is expanding it across the southern border this month.

Testifying before a House panel on Wednesday, acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said PACR allows asylum seekers to “have their day in court quickly, so we can know whether they have that right to be in the U.S. legally or not.”

But lawyers and advocates who have worked with clients in the program say the fast timeline and restrictions on communications with lawyers undercut due process and make it very difficult for them to win their cases.

Several organizations, led by the American Civil Liberties Union, are suing the government, alleging PACR violates immigration laws.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


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1 posted on 02/28/2020 8:15:09 AM PST by karpov
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To: karpov

That IS the PROCESS!................


2 posted on 02/28/2020 8:17:36 AM PST by Red Badger (If people were to God like dogs are to people, the world would be a really great place..............)
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When Juliana Garcia crossed the U.S.-Mexico border with her 8-year-old daughter, Glendy, in December, she hoped to find safety and build a new life with her father living in Tennessee. But Ms. Garcia and her daughter remained in the U.S. just 25 days before being returned to Guatemala.


3 posted on 02/28/2020 8:18:03 AM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: karpov

Notice that the WSJ conveniently left out the fact that this was an unlawful crossing.


5 posted on 02/28/2020 8:19:44 AM PST by jimbug
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To: karpov

From the corrupt MSM style manual: “Progressives say” = “Critics say”


6 posted on 02/28/2020 8:22:52 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: TADSLOS

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7 posted on 02/28/2020 8:24:10 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Magnum44

Find the father and deport him if he is here illegally.


8 posted on 02/28/2020 8:25:14 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: karpov

I cannot come up with a single legitimate asylum situation when arriving via land from Mexico. If your life was truly in danger and you made it to Mexico - you are safe enough. Trying to upgrade from Mexico to the US is just for economic reasons, not asylum reasons.


9 posted on 02/28/2020 8:26:11 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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To: Sequoyah101

We are all some shade of brown. Except the occasional albino.

Brown is not the problem.


10 posted on 02/28/2020 8:28:00 AM PST by Persevero (Desmond is not -Amazing- Desmond is -Abused-)
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To: karpov

This country would be solo much better off if the aclu would just die.....the organization not the people.


11 posted on 02/28/2020 8:28:01 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: V_TWIN

Solo= sooo


12 posted on 02/28/2020 8:28:33 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: karpov

Asylum seekers have no right to due process.


13 posted on 02/28/2020 8:28:42 AM PST by I want the USA back (We have sunk to a depth where restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men:Orwell)
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To: Persevero; Sequoyah101

Thank you!


14 posted on 02/28/2020 8:30:40 AM PST by Mercat
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To: karpov

Gosh, and all this time I thought that “due process” was a right extended to American citizens according to the United States Constitution.


15 posted on 02/28/2020 8:30:51 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Mercat; Persevero; Sequoyah101

All children of God


16 posted on 02/28/2020 8:31:58 AM PST by Mercat
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To: jimbug
And that there is no requirement for due process when deporting and illegal alien

I have know of highly skilled foreign born, US educated green card holding PhDs unceremoniously deported simply because the failed to file a document with ICE in a timely fashion

They were given no recourse.

And these are the kind of guys you dont want the Chinese to get ahold of to improve their defense industry

Why is it that the most useless illegal alien parasites who can only drag our economy down and be a burden on the system are given the greatest benefits and walked to the front of the line and given a free pass to cut in front of everyone else

17 posted on 02/28/2020 8:33:39 AM PST by rdcbn ( Referentiai)
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To: jimbug

Notice that the WSJ conveniently left out the fact that this was an unlawful crossing.
Exactly! Enter illegally get sent home and NEVER allowed to apply again. Come legally, welcome to your new home!


18 posted on 02/28/2020 8:33:51 AM PST by spudville
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To: Persevero

Thank you.


19 posted on 02/28/2020 8:34:02 AM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: karpov

as a law professor once said in the first day of the course on Administrative Law, “Everyone is entitled to due process. The question is, what process is due?”


20 posted on 02/28/2020 8:34:29 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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