New Policy Will Require Compliance with the Law

On June 1, CBS News reported that a new “Trump administration plan would allow for quick asylum rejections without interviews”, according to what the network referred to as “internal documents”. Skip the headline and this story becomes a yawner because as CBS News explains, this “plan” would only apply to asylum claims filed more than a year after the applicant arrived here, which are already largely barred under the “asylum statute”, section 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).