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Tahirih submitted comments on the proposed regulations that would bar almost everyone from asylum and withholding of removal because of COVID-19.
The government has asked the Supreme Court to review the 9th Circuit’s decision preventing the government from returning asylees to dangerous living circumstances in Mexico while they wait for their asylum proceedings in the United States. In our opposition to the petition for certiorari, Tahirih has asked the Supreme Court not to review that decision, primarily because the 9th Circuit correctly ruled that this return violates immigration laws as well as the United States’ non-refoulement obligation to not send people seeking safety back to places where they are demonstrably not safe.
The Tahirih Justice Center submited the following comments to the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security in response to the proposed asylum regulations issued by the Departments on June 15, 2020.
Today, the administration proposed new regulations that attempt to use public health as a pretext to deny asylum claims. The rule would give the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice the authority to bar asylum protections to anyone who is from, or passes through, an area where the U.S. government has determined that COVID-19 is “prevalent.”
The Tahirih Justice Center is relieved at the decision in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on our lawsuit challenging the third country transit asylum ban, forcing the policy to stop. The asylum ban was issued on July 16, 2019 and barred anyone approaching the U.S. southern border from applying for asylum, with limited exceptions. It was put into effect with no opportunity for comment from the public. The lawsuit was filed on August 21, 2019, and Tahirih was represented in the action by the American Civil Liberties Union.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit reversed a preliminary injunction that halted the expansion of expedited removal—a policy that will begin to quickly deport people all over the U.S. before they have had a chance to see a judge. The expansion of expedited removal was first announced in July 2019 but had been blocked since September 27, 2019.
You can see Tahirih’s comments in opposition to the rule here.
Tahirih and more than 500 organizations signed on to a letter to urge the government to extend the comment period for the newest proposed asylum regulations.
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