The researchers believed that they were following the rules. Now some are asked to start again

The Trump administration is stripping the protection of some of the asylum -seekers who came to 2019.

NPR has learned that dozens of immigrants across the United States have received messages in the mail to notify them that their asylum issues have been rejected by US Citizenship and Immigration services (USCIS), a branch of the Ministry of Internal Security.

The reason, according to the messages: these people seeking asylum, many of whom entered between 2019 and 2022, did not receive a mandatory examination, known as a "Relief" Interview, on the border.

The interview is conducted by the asylum officer as soon as someone arrested or arrived in the United States. It is meant that it is an opportunity for a person to describe any fear of persecution they may face if they are returned to their mother country.

US They did not have enough asylum officers For reliable fear interviews for every person crossing the border, given the huge flow of border bars starting from the Covid-19 pandemic, at the end of the Trump administration and during the Biden administration, experts told NPR. Now it seems that the new Trump administration rejects requests, which makes people start effectively again in a process they started years ago.

This round of the separation of asylum issue is the latest effort by the Trump administration to strip protection from those who have been in the United States for years. In the past few months, the administration has limited the ways that people can search for asylum, and made the process more expensive, and it is now reviewing the claims already submitted and rejected if parts of the complex application are missing. But with the expansion of officials, lawyers may fear, detain and deport them from their agents who are waiting for years to conduct interviews with asylum in efforts to perform mass deportations.

Asylum is Protection shape has been granted For those who have already entered the United States or in a port to enter, after they left their homeland. After submitting an application, applicants receive work permits, pay taxes and can register at school.

"You are making literally documented people, again, not documented, and they are already here," Michelle Marti Rivera, a migration lawyer who has dozens of customers who received these messages. "You cancel the employment permission. You are actually transforming people who follow the normal traditional asylum rules and leave them without a situation and without protection and asking them to show their faces on the ice."

Lawyers told NPR that in some cases, their customers may have been distinguished "Fast removal" When they entered the country for the first time. This is a form of deportation for people who were in the United States for less than two years.

When asked about the dismissal of asylum, the USCIS spokesman Matthew Tragiser said that if USCIS discovers that the ICE immigration and customs protection and border protection as is the case in "Fast removal," Uscis closes the request administratively due to the lack of jurisdiction.

"This long -term practice is not new," Tragleer said. According to the USCIS, the reliable fear meeting is the key to withdrawing a person from the expedited removal before providing asylum.

"Trusted fear (interview) is an examination tool. Essentially, there is a higher level when someone achieves it, and then they can then go to the asylum process," Morgan Billy, a former USA official who served during the Trump and Biden era, said, adding that over the past fifteen years, the agency has not been able to keep pace with the number of asylum seekers who need reliable fear interviews. "There is not enough asylum officers to cover the work burden, but there was also an increase in the number of asylum applications."

But now, immigration lawyers warn that immigrants are facing the consequences of this deficiency.

Resorters of asylum around the system are bounced

There are different versions of the letters that the applicants received asylum, and NPR has reviewed some of them. The applicants began receiving them in July. Messages say that all the treatment of asylum application has been completed. In some messages, applicants are required to wait for a notification from ICE about when the reliable fear interview will be scheduled. In other cases, messages tell them to submit a report to ICE first and request the interview. Some of them are not clear in the following steps.

Lawyer Maria Florence, Garcia has one agent who entered across the southern border and was originally placed in the accelerated removal, but was released in the United States Before receiving his interview.

"Once he was released, they scheduled a reliable fear of fear, but (He) was I cancel. We tried to get a reschedule for a few years. It never happened," Florence, Garcia, said, adding that she had applied for asylum in any case because this must be submitted within a year of being in the country. But in recent weeks, this customer has received the message that comes to the separation.

"He is unable to work. He will not be able to renew the recruitment authorization card," And Florence said Garcia. "The only way he will be able to move forward is to appear on the ice, telling them that he is afraid of returning, and it is likely to be held."

Another immigration lawyer, this effort from the second Trump administration as an attempt to redress a specific group of applicants asylum of those It came in the first place during the years of Biden.

"They are only doing the process that was allocated to them, which was legal and gave them the moment they presented in the United States," Limos said, noting that some of his clients also received the messages. "Now the government wants to return retroactively."

Lemus agrees with USCIS that policy is not necessarily new – reliable fear interviews are the pre -conditioning requirement for resorting. But like other lawyers, Limos said that he has agents awaiting up to six years to conduct a refugee issue.

"The issue is that people have already been released in the United States, which they have already created years of treatment. They paid taxes. They have jobs. Some of them made investments in the United States," Limos said.

The risk of detention is higher than it was in the past

Trump administration This summer revealed a new policy Ask the immigrants who entered the country illegally to put in detention without the opportunity to release them while fighting their cases.

Immigration lawyers told NPR that they were concerned that their customers, who were waiting for their asylum interviews, would be held if they were reported to make the date for reliable fear interviews.

"There is a lack of confidence. There is a lot of uncertainty that makes people fear. It makes people not want to fight their issues, whether they are strong or not," Florinsia Garcia said. "They only do not want to risk."

Ice has increased the number of arrests in the immigration courts, and prominent work enforcement in the work has left a lot of fear.

"You go to court – you are detained; Go to your ice date – get a detention; You go to work – you are detained; You apply for asylum – you are incorrectly addressed," Limos said. "You can’t do anything."

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