Why does it take so long for asylum cases in the U.S.?
Shouldn't the U.S. place enough judges or magistrates at border crossings to help alleviate the enormous backlog?
Posted May 12, 2023, 9:16 AM UTC
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Asylum cases have to be reviewed on their individual merits. You can’t just look at someone and say they meet the criteria. Background checks take a lot of time, and unfortunately take longer because there are so many cases in front of them being processed serial fashion.
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How do they handle background checks? I bet a lot of the countries they come from don't have the best records systems.
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And therein lies some of the problems.
What reasons are people coming to the US claiming asylum for? Persecuted ethnic or religious minorities, for example.
There are firms who have access to census, birth records, church records etc, that do those checks. But they are often laborious as the records may be paper based. Or their government may not provide easy access. And how does someone fleeing a country prove they are who they say they are? It all takes time.
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Perhaps the system is supposed to be a deterrent.
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It took me SIX months to get my Id renewed here in Germany, they understaff everything in every country, its a chore in a lot of places, not even gonna bother to renew my passport
If it took six years in Germany, it would take 6 years in the U.S.
I mean this is me as a native German trying to get a simple task done. We have the exact same issue here when it comes to asylums with temporary housings and terrible living conditions, lot of human trafficking involved as well.
Just saying if its this annoying for me, its beyond horrific for people that arent as "privileged" as me
Sometimes, you can get a passport renewed here in as little as 2 weeks. Right before peak travel seasons, they can get backlogged. I'm not sure about the first time getting a passport. I got my first passport pre-9/11. Back then, you could just go to a passport office and get it the same day.