Trump's Proposed Changes Would Effectively Abolish Asylum

Authors

Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes, Boston University School of LawFollow

Author granted license

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-25-2020

Publisher

Cognoscenti

Language

en-US

Abstract

This year is the 40th anniversary of U.S. asylum law. To celebrate, the Trump administration wants to obliterate it — and some of my clients will likely die as a result.

Since Donald Trump took office, successive attorneys’ general and officials in the White House have been intent — and unrelenting — in their drive to narrow asylum protections for some of the most vulnerable, including children, LGBTQ immigrants and survivors of domestic violence.

Recommended Citation

Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes, Trump's Proposed Changes Would Effectively Abolish Asylum , in Cognoscenti (2020).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/shorter_works/100

Publisher URL

https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2020/06/25/asylum-law-immigration-refugees-trump-sarah-sherman-stokes