Outmatched: The U.S. Asylum System Faces Record Demands

The United States grants asylum system continue to be to and refugee statuses, which offer permanent residence, provide lawful status to those based on the definitions included in the 1951 Refugee Convention and the 1967 Protocol, and subsidiary protections in need, and to return those under the Convention Against Torture. But U. [...] BOX 1 About the Clingendael Institute’s Comparative Asylum Project In December 2022, the Dutch government initiated a working group focusing on the “fundamental reorientation of the current asylum policy and design of the asylum system.” Its aim is to further structure the asylum migration process, to prevent and/or limit irregular arrivals, and to strengthen public support for migration. [...] The synthesis report and the country case studies can be accessed here: The main question to be answered in the national reports is: Which instruments are applied or proposed by Australia, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and the United States concerning or affecting access to asylum procedures and humanitarian protection? Therefore, the coun. [...] Domestic Implementing Legislation: The Refugee Act of 1980 Despite becoming a party to the 1967 Protocol, the United States did not enact domestic implementing legislation with a conforming definition for “refugee” or a mandatory nonrefoulement21 provision until the passage of the Refugee Act of 1980.22 The main intent of the Refugee Act was to provide a legal basis for external processing for ref. [...] border turn account the credibility of the statements made by the alien in support of the alien’s claim and such other facts as are known to themselves in to officials in the officer, that the alien could establish eligibility for asylum.”39 order to seek protection.