Provisions of the Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 would endanger the lives of people seeking asylum, trample on international refugee law, inflict disorder, and lead to human rights abuses. For example, the bill would:
- Eliminate crucial safeguards on expedited removal, returning people who have a significant possibility of being eligible for asylum to their countries of persecution without asylum hearings. New barriers to accessing asylum include a higher screening standard and a series of legally and factually complex bars to asylum that will be assessed in screening interviews, where asylum seekers are overwhelmingly not represented by counsel. A in people being to not pass screenings and be ordered deported, including political dissidents from . The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has confirmed that higher screening standards of return to persecution.
