The Trump administration plans to funnel potentially hundreds of thousands of asylum cases to immigration courts that are denying relief to nearly all applicants.
A Department of Homeland Security rule change announced Monday could more quickly shift asylum applications from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to immigration judges.
The change in how the federal government handles certain asylum petitions is meant to reduce the 1.4 million-case backlog at USCIS, according to the interim final rule going into effect Tuesday.