Menendez Statement in Response to DHS Rule Change on Asylum Processing

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U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today issued the following statement after the Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas announced a new rule change allowing asylum officers to grant decisions about asylum cases:

"I am glad to see the Biden Administration taking innovative measures to address the massive immigration court backlog and to create an orderly asylum process at the southern border. I believe it is necessary to modernize every legal migration pathway, including our asylum system that far too often is the only legal pathway available to migrants. Nonetheless, this announced change must ensure the due process rights of asylum seekers are protected under this new rule. I hope this is only one of many actions the Administration will take to exercise all existing legal authorities to expand legal pathways into the United States and to build a more humane and inclusive immigration system."

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