Procedures for Asylum and Withholding of Removal (filed Oct. 23, 2020)

On October 23, 2020, Immigration Equality and Center Global, submitted a comment opposing the Department of Justice’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Procedures for Asylum and Withholding of Removal. The proposed rule requires that asylum claims be adjudicated within 180 days, requires judges to reject applications for small technical errors, requires asylum seekers in asylum or withholding proceedings to submit applications within 15 days of their initial Master Calendar Hearing, and limits the ability of immigration judges to consider country condition evidence brought by asylum seekers while allowing the judges to introduce their own evidence. These changes result in serious due process concerns. Additionally, immigration judges will no longer be neutral adjudicators. For these reasons Immigration Equality and Center Global opposed the proposed rule.

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