This is the end of asylum for refugees as we know it in the US | By Rafia Zakaria for CNNOpinion
Rafia Zakaria is the author of"The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan" and"Veil" . She is a columnist for Dawn newspaper in Pakistan and The Baffler. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. View more opinion on CNN.
The impending end of granting asylum to refugees by the United States was announced in a presidential memo. On Monday, President Donald Trump asked the Department of Homeland Security to develop proposals requiring those seeking asylum to pay processing fees for their applications and to severely limit their access to work permits.
These proposed changes are not the only ways in which the Trump administration has nipped and hacked at the United States' asylum laws and rules. On April 17, Attorney General William Barr decided that asylum seekers who are in detention but who have passed their initial interviews would not be eligible for bond, opening the possibility of indefinite detention for asylum seekers.
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