"Trump has sought to overhaul the US immigration system and recruit other countries to join in its efforts. Thursday's panel included representatives from Kosovo, Bangladesh, Liberia and Panama. Among the changes the Trump administration has sought is a reimagining of the asylum system, which started to take shape following World War II. Landau explained that the US would like to see asylum become a temporary status, with claimants eventually returning home."
"Under the current system enshrined in US law in 1980 people seeking asylum are able to apply once they are on US soil, regardless of whether they arrived through legal pathways. To qualify, applicants have to show a fear of persecution in their home country because of specific reasons related to their race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinions. Applications can sometimes take months, if not years, to be reviewed."
The US State Department urged other countries to tighten asylum systems and characterized the global asylum framework as broken. A UNGA-side panel framed asylum processes as susceptible to abuse and called for stricter controls on asylum seekers. The administration proposed reimagining asylum as a temporary status with claimants returning home and emphasized there is no right to choose a country of asylum. Current US law allows people on US soil to apply for asylum based on fear of persecution for race, religion, nationality, social group membership, or political opinion. Officials argued that long processing times and loopholes have made the system vulnerable to fraud.
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