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The treatment of asylum seekers under U.S. policy, including changes to asylum eligibility and expulsions.
are entitled to many constitutional due process protections as “persons” under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, but those protections vary by circumstance and are constrained by immigration statut...
-era policies reduced lawful humanitarian admissions and made it harder for asylum seekers to obtain protection: the administration lowered to historic lows and presided over falling asylum grants and...
, a public‑health order invoked during the , and the (known as “Remain in ” or MPP) reshaped asylum processing by turning expedited expulsions and mandatory waits in Mexico into primary tools for cont...
“” are raw, event-based counts of interactions between migrants and U.S. authorities at ports of entry, land borders and other points, while net changes in the unauthorized immigrant population measur...
expulsions were a public‑health instrument first deployed in March 2020 that allowed to expel migrants immediately rather than process them under , and they accounted for a very large share of U.S. “r...
legally continues to recognize and provide under federal statute, but policy in 2025–2026 has moved decisively toward restriction: the executive branch has paused asylum adjudications, expanded travel...
— the pandemic-era public health authority that let officials swiftly expel people at the border — suppressed official land-border entries and expulsions during 2020–2023, but its use also reshaped ho...
permits immigration detention of noncitizens—including asylum seekers—under a framework of statutory detention ( and ), judge-supervised bond hearings for many detainees, and discretionary parole; cou...
in the can sometimes obtain lawful status through a mix of long-standing immigration forms (family petitions, asylum, humanitarian visas), special statutory mechanisms (registry, section 245(i)), reli...
Civil-rights groups criticized administration for running a that prioritized speed and volume over individualized due process, used detention and summary removal practices that harmed families and asy...
The best public tally of people encountered trying to cross the border illegally during the period covering the end of 2016 through the end of 2020 is found in “encounters” (apprehensions and expulsio...
International "push" factors — regional violence, state failure, and climate-driven economic shocks — combined with "pull" signals such as U.S. labor demand and perceived enforcement gaps to drive maj...