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From a press release posted on the commission’s website: “Two years after the U.S.
Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) published the
congressionally authorized
Report on Asylum Seekers in Expedited Removal, the problems it
identified remain and the majority of its recommendations have not been
implemented.
“Congress intended Expedited Removal, written into
law in 1996, to protect U.S. borders and bona fide asylum seekers. As
this policy is being implemented, though, it has put asylum seekers at
risk of being returned to countries where they face persecution.
“That has helped turn the United States, a nation
founded by people fleeing repression, into a country of bureaucratic
walls and mazes where victims are sent back to their tormentors or
thrown into U.S. jails alongside criminals pending a judgment on
asylum.” [Read
more]
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