Under Trump or Harris, U.S. Asylum Curbs Are Likely to Endure - The New York Times

As administrations of both parties have failed to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws, a reckoning for the asylum system, which some say is overdue, seems inevitable. By Jazmine Ulloa and Hamed Aleaziz Jazmine Ulloa and Hamed Aleaziz reported from Washington, D.C. For decades, granting political asylum has been part of the story that the United States has told about itself. As a Western democracy and a nation of immigrants, that national ethos goes, America has an obligation to offer safe harbor to people fleeing persecution in their home countries. But regardless of who wins the White House in November, the 2024 presidential election is likely to mark the end of the asylum system as Americans have known it, according to interviews with roughly two dozen immigration lawyers, scholars and former federal officials. That system is broken, many critics, supporters and even ordinary Americans said — a result of its transformation into something that it wasn’t intended to be at its creati

As administrations of both parties have failed to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws, a reckoning for the asylum system, which some say is overdue, seems inevitable. By Jazmine Ulloa and Hamed Aleaziz Jazmine Ulloa and Hamed Aleaziz reported from Washington, D.C. For decades, granting political asylum has been part of the story that the United States has told about itself. As a Western democracy and a nation of immigrants, that national ethos goes, America has an obligation to offer safe harbor to people fleeing persecution in their home countries. But regardless of who wins the White Hous