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Proposed asylum fees are part of a bid to make immigrants to the US fund their own red tape

  • Written by Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes, Lecturer and Clinical Instructor of Law; Associate Director of the Immigrants’ Rights and Human Trafficking Clinic, Boston University
Like making applicants wait in Mexico, fees could discourage asylum seekers.AP Photo/Fernando Llano

The Trump administration wants to make people fleeing persecution in their home countries pay for something they’ve long gotten for free: the right to apply for asylum in the United States.

As an immigration attorney and a law professor who has...

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