Border Patrol agents interviewing families for 'credible fear,' instead of asylum officers

Border Patrol agents are beginning to screen migrant families for “credible fear” instead of highly trained asylum officers who are charged with determining whether applicants qualify for U.S. protection, The Los Angeles Times has learned.

The Citizenship and Immigration Services personnel requested anonymity for fear of retaliation. Neither the agency, nor Customs and Border Protection, the Border Patrol’s parent agency, immediately responded to requests for comment by deadline. “I don’t mean to denigrate the proper and legitimate role of Border Patrol, but it’s different,” Knowles said. “They’re not trained and geared toward refugee protection, any more than I’m trained to go look for tracks in the desert and chase people.”

The timeline states three times that “additional training will be required” if the Border Patrol role in asylum interviews expands to family units. Homeland Security officials also assured congressional staffers in August that the Border Patrol was not going to cover family units because of that requirement, a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee aide told The Times. Department officials did not inform the committee they’d be deploying agents to family detention centers.

Advocates argue that the disparity only shows how difficult it is to win the right to stay in the United States. With the backlog of immigration casesThe asylum division at Citizenship and Immigration Services has faced heavy pressure from the White House and from Ken Cuccinelli, who was named acting director of the agency in June. John L. Lafferty, asylum division chief for six years, recently was reassigned to a service center andor consultation.

Thanks to Trump and the GOP we all live in a climate of fear (well, except for his deplorable supporters, of course).

Each day under the reign of the Trump Regime, our society gets worse and worse, with definitely no morals whatsoever.

Border Patrol agents began training to conduct asylum interviews in late April, but agents have now deployed to family detention facilities for the first time.

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