US Lawmakers Threaten the Right to Seek Asylum
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Migrants wait for their CBP One asylum appointment to cross into the US at the Chaparral pedestrian border in Tijuana, Mexico November 09, 2023.
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Since when are human rights negotiable? The Universal Declaration of Human Rights enshrines the principle that “everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.” US law holds that “Any alien who is physically present in the United States or who arrives in the United States (whether or not at a designated port of arrival…)…may apply for asylum…”
But US Republican leaders are trying to change this decades-old law and, in effect, end the right …read more
Source:: Human Rights Watch
