US Senate Bill Aims to Kill Access to Asylum for Central Americans

Expand A Mission Police Dept. officer (L), and a U.S. Border Patrol agent watch over a group of Central American asylum seekers before taking them into custody on June 12, 2018 near McAllen, Texas. © 2018 Getty Images If you follow the twisted logic of Senator Lindsey Graham’s Secure and Protect Act to its ultimate conclusion, the US would all but shut its doors to Central American refugees – full stop. A vote on the bill in the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary is scheduled for August 1.  First, Sen. Graham’s bill would make ineligible for asylum in the United States anyone who came from…

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