{"id":76861,"date":"2019-09-13T08:48:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T13:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persian-heritage.com\/wordpress\/?p=76861"},"modified":"2019-09-13T08:48:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T13:48:46","slug":"major-impact-expected-from-supreme-court-asylum-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2019\/09\/13\/major-impact-expected-from-supreme-court-asylum-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Impact Expected from Supreme Court Asylum Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA – CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO – Victoria Macchi contributed to this report  <\/em>Shortly after the Supreme Court unblocked a White House policy curtailing migrants\u2019 ability to seek asylum in the U.S., President Donald Trump basked in the moment. \u201cBIG United States Supreme Court WIN for the Border on Asylum!\u201d the president tweeted late Wednesday. While legal challenges continue to make their way through the nation\u2019s 9th Circuit Court of Appeals \u2014 which includes the southern border states of California and Arizona \u2014  the Supreme Court ruled that, in the interim, the Trump administration could begin denying asylum claims to migrants at the country\u2019s southern border who did not first seek protection in another country along their route. The policy would affect asylum-seekers at the border, who are largely from Central America, as well as an increasing number of migrants<\/a> from outside the Western Hemisphere.<\/p>\n

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, dissented from the order, declaring that the rule<\/a> \u201cseeks to upend longstanding practices regarding refugees who seek shelter from persecution.\u201d<\/p>\n

BuzzFeed News\u2019 Hamed Aleaziz reported on Thursday that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officers were issued guidance that the policy applies to all asylum seekers who reached the U.S.-Mexico border after July 16.<\/p>\n

In August, VOA spoke with Cubans, Venezuelans, and African migrants who had crossed through several countries to arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border, many of them after that date. Some were forced to return to Mexico, pending a future immigration date, under a U.S. policy called the Migrant Protection Protocols (M.P.P.), also known as \u201cRemain in Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the administration\u2019s mind, the whole idea is to just prevent individuals from arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, and M.P.P. was sort of the initial first plank of this strategy,\u201d said Cristobal Ramon, immigration project senior policy analyst at the Bipartisan Policy Center.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is now saying, you arrive at a port of entry or you arrive between ports of entry, but if you enter through a third country, you have to return there for processing,\u201d Ramon told VOA.<\/p>\n

Citing examples of kidnapping and extortion along the way, migrants at or near the U.S.-Mexico border have told VOA that countries they passed through to reach the United States were not safe for their families, were devoid of economic opportunity, or both.<\/p>\n

Julia, an asylum-seeker from the Democratic Republic of the Congo whose last name VOA withheld for security reasons, detailed the horrific circumstances that led her to flee<\/a> in the first place, but also recalled people targeting her family and other migrants as they walked through Central America.<\/p>\n

Along the Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama, Julia said bandits would jump from trees to demand ransom.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you don\u2019t give any money, they can kill you,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Victory or violation<\/p>\n

Omar Jadwat, Director of the American Civil Liberties Union\u2019s Immigrant Rights Project, said Wednesday\u2019s ruling will have a \u201chorrific\u201d human toll.<\/p>\n

Human rights organizations and some U.S. democratic lawmakers were also quick to blast the ruling.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is yet another attempt by the Trump administration to bar people, especially from Central America, from seeking protection in the United States from violence and persecution,\u201d Refugees International’s U.S. Senior Advocate Yael Schacher said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlocking asylum seekers from entering the United States does not make us safer, violates our treaty obligations, tarnishes our image around the world, and endangers vulnerable people who are fleeing violence \u2013 especially children and families,\u201d democratic Senator Dick Durbin wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n

Michelle Bachelet, the top U.N. human rights official, has repeatedly criticized the Trump administration\u2019s changes to U.S. asylum policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In line with President Trump\u2019s tweets, proponents of the asylum ban declared \u201cvictory.\u201d<\/p>\n

“This is a big victory for anyone who seeks an immigration policy in the best interests of our country,\u201d said Dale L. Wilcox, executive director and general counsel of the Immigration Reform Law Institute, a public interest law firm that claims to \u201cdefend the rights and interests of the American people from the negative effects of mass migration.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor too long, those who do not meet the standard for asylum have exploited gaps in the system as a back-door into the U.S.,\u201d Wilcox said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBORDER SECURITY VICTORY,\u201d Republican Congressman Mo Brooks, from Alabama, declared on twitter. \u201cBIG WIN FOR USA!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VOA – CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO – Victoria Macchi contributed to this report  Shortly after the Supreme Court unblocked a White House policy curtailing migrants\u2019 ability to seek asylum in the U.S., President Donald Trump basked in the moment. \u201cBIG United States Supreme Court WIN for the Border on Asylum!\u201d the president tweeted late Wednesday. While […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}