Charging asylum application fees is the latest way the US could make immigrants pay for its red tape

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

9-25-2018

Publisher

The Conversation

Language

en-US

Abstract

The Trump administration wants to make people fleeing persecution in their home countries pay for something they’ve long gotten for free: the right to apply for asylum in the United States.

Recommended Citation

Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes, Charging asylum application fees is the latest way the US could make immigrants pay for its red tape , in The Conversation (2018).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/shorter_works/111

Publisher URL

https://theconversation.com/charging-asylum-application-fees-is-the-latest-way-the-us-could-make-immigrants-pay-for-its-red-tape-116404