The Donald Trump administration announced on Monday that it wants to limit asylum conditions for foreigners entering the United States after crossing Mexico and other territories, in a new attempt to stop the flow of migrants arriving in the country.
This announcement comes at a time when Washington is unsuccessfully seeking a “Third Secure Country” agreement for migrants to process their asylum applications in any of the countries they cross in their route through Central America to the United States.
The new regulation
uses the authority delegated by Congress in (…) the Migration Law to improve the integrity of the asylum process by placing more restrictions or limitations on the eligibility of foreigners seeking asylum in the United States,”
said the Department of Justice in a statement.
The limitations will have three exceptions: foreigners who demonstrate that they applied for asylum in at least one country and their petition was ultimately denied; who enter the definition of “victims of a serious form of human trafficking”; and those who have traveled on their way to the United States from countries that are not part of the 1951 Refugee Convention or the 1965 Protocol.
Called “Final Provisional Regulation”, the regulations enter into force on Tuesday but may undergo subsequent modifications after its publication and may also be subject to judicial remedies.
Powered by the White House, it is aimed at the hundreds of thousands of migrants from Central America and other countries who try to cross into the United States through the border with Mexico to seek asylum once in US territory.