Reshaping the Asylum System at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Channel: Migration Policy Institute
Date: 2022-10-31

Providing access to asylum for arrivals at the U.S.-Mexico border has long been hampered by a U.S. asylum system in crisis. More complexity was added with the implementation of the pandemic-era Title 42 border expulsions policy that has denied the basic right to apply for asylum for many and litigation around the Migrant Protection Protocols (aka Remain in Mexico) program begun under the Trump administration and continued during the Biden presidency.

The Biden administration has advanced and begun implementing a new asylum system that it contends will make the processing of asylum cases fairer and reduce some of the years-long delays that neither serve the interests of humanitarian protection nor effective migration management. How is the final rule that establishes the new system affecting practices at the border and within the executive branch? How are some of the criticisms being addressed? What should a post-Title 42 enforcement regime entail? And what is the status of the MPP program?
 
Moderator: Andrew I. Schoenholtz, Professor from Practice, Georgetown Law; Co-Director, Center for Applied Legal Studies; Faculty Director, Human Rights Institute, Georgetown Law
Speakers:
Jennifer B. Higgins, Deputy Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Sara Ramey, Executive Director, Migrant Center for Human Rights
Philip G. Schrag, Co-Director, Center for Applied Legal Studies and Delaney Family Professor of Public Interest Law, Georgetown Law
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