The United States has imposed new requirements for asylum seekers in the country. The government of President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that those with convictions for driving while intoxicated or for gang-related crimes will not be able to obtain shelter.
The regulations, which will come into effect on November 20, include another series of crimes that could cancel the process. Among them: domestic violence, be it serious or minor, assault, illegal re-entry into the country, identity theft, fraud of public benefits and immigrant trafficking.
Denial of asylum was already associated in the past with people committing “particularly serious crimes”. But the new conditions are much stricter.
The measure is part of the restrictive policy against immigrants that the Trump administration has been reinforcing for four years, and which had one of its most radical points when last March it declared that those who had entered the country illegally would be expelled immediately without legal protection, arguing for reasons of national security and public health.
Political asylum was designed for individuals persecuted in their country of origin because of their race, nationality, political affiliation, religion or social group. It does not include those who emigrate for economic reasons.
The president has referred pejoratively to asylum and has received criticism from a wide sector of society. A few months ago, he also temporarily halted the regular emigration processes and reduced the staff of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and launched a tweet where he assured that no American citizen would lose their job to hands of an emigrant.
The director of the National Immigrant Justice Center, Heidi Altman, pointed out that: “The government is showing unnecessary cruelty by setting these new limits on an asylum system that has already been decimated since Trump became president.” economical.
In July, a rule had already entered into force that disqualifies asylum seekers if they come from a country with abundant infectious diseases.
For many it is a drastic measure that drunk driving is considered such a serious offense as to merit immediate rejection of the asylum application. The opinion published this Wednesday in the Federal Register, an official newspaper signed by Secretary of Justice William Barr, criticizes that the ability to define crimes associated with gangs was too ambiguous and prone to errors. The government ignored these criticisms.
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