President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will fast-track decisions on asylum cases in an effort to cut down the massive backlog left by former President Joe Biden’s administration.
On Monday, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Joe Edlow announced a rule change that allows the agency’s adjudicators to refer asylum applications to federal immigration judges without first interviewing the applicant.
“This rule will shorten the total time that it takes asylum officers and Immigration Judges to adjudicate asylum applications,” a news release from USCIS states. “Among other reasons, USCIS is making this change to reduce the asylum backlog.”
Indeed, the asylum case backlog had ballooned to...
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