While in office, President Barack Obama said that poverty and crime alone are not justifications for asylum claims, comments that closely mirror the sentiment of the Trump administration.
The Democratic president even called on asylum seekers to lodge their claims in their own countries.
Both administrations are on record criticizing the act of only citing economic conditions or regional violence for U.S. asylum claims.
President Donald Trump, for his part, has taken dramatic steps to make asylum seekers file their claims outside the U.S., and has implemented a metering program that reins in the number of asylum applicants who can enter the interior of the country.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services does not grant asylum to foreign nationals who make such attempts, and the agency has cited rules put in place long before Trump entered office.
"Under the asylum law, there are five basis to claim asylum. The first four are pretty straight forward: race, religion, nationality, political opinion. Most of the claims from Central America, the Northern Triangle, don't fall within those four categories," a Department of Justice official said to the Daily Caller News Foundation, explaining the asylum application process.
"It is clear under the asylum law that general civil strife, bad economic conditions, private acts of violence, interpersonal disputes, private criminal activity, that sort of thing - those are generally not basis for asylum. So individuals coming from these countries, and that's by and large what they're leaving, if they want to claim to remain in the United States or an asylum claim, they have to essentially take that situation and fit it within that fifth category," the official continued.
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/flashback-obama-said-crime-and-poverty-are-not-qualifiers-for-asylum/
The Democratic president even called on asylum seekers to lodge their claims in their own countries.
Both administrations are on record criticizing the act of only citing economic conditions or regional violence for U.S. asylum claims.
President Donald Trump, for his part, has taken dramatic steps to make asylum seekers file their claims outside the U.S., and has implemented a metering program that reins in the number of asylum applicants who can enter the interior of the country.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services does not grant asylum to foreign nationals who make such attempts, and the agency has cited rules put in place long before Trump entered office.
"Under the asylum law, there are five basis to claim asylum. The first four are pretty straight forward: race, religion, nationality, political opinion. Most of the claims from Central America, the Northern Triangle, don't fall within those four categories," a Department of Justice official said to the Daily Caller News Foundation, explaining the asylum application process.
"It is clear under the asylum law that general civil strife, bad economic conditions, private acts of violence, interpersonal disputes, private criminal activity, that sort of thing - those are generally not basis for asylum. So individuals coming from these countries, and that's by and large what they're leaving, if they want to claim to remain in the United States or an asylum claim, they have to essentially take that situation and fit it within that fifth category," the official continued.
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/flashback-obama-said-crime-and-poverty-are-not-qualifiers-for-asylum/
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