Asylum

What to Know: The presidential race is putting the spotlight on America’s broken immigration system.

The TPPF Take: We need lasting reforms now.

“The essential problem with the U.S. asylum system is that it was built to respond to the challenges of the Cold War in the 20th century, not the immigration challenges of the 21st,” says TPPF’s Ken Oliver. “Our recent study identified the system’s core flaws, along with three key things that need to be done to fix it: streamlining the credible fear process, abolishing the 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement and amending the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 to eliminate the distinction between unaccompanied minors (UACs) from contiguous and non-contiguous countries.”

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