Asylum Seekers and Detention – A Change in Policy

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

On December 16, 2009, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) Assistant Secretary John Morton announced that ICE will generally release from detention arriving asylum seekers who have a credible fear of persecution or torture if certain criteria are met-part of ICE’s ongoing immigration detention reform efforts.
The revised guidelines, effective Jan. 4, 2010, will permit parole [...]

Filed under: Immigration Detention, arriving alien, asylum by Thaker Berowitz LLP
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