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Elizabeth Jacobs

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Parsing Immigration Policy2 episodes

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Parsing Immigration Policy
Parsing Immigration Policy

Biden’s New Asylum Rule Is Not What You Think

Summary A proposed new asylum regulation advertised as deterring illegal immigration at the southern border is unlikely to have the intended result. Under the new rule, some aliens who have not applied for protection in a country they passed through en route to the United States may be ineligible for asylum under some circumstances. Immigration activists have decried the rule as a return to Trump-era deterrence policies but, in reality, it is nothing of the kind. On this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, Elizabeth Jacobs, director of regulatory affairs and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies, explains how the rule is not what the administration claims or the activists fear. “There are a wide range of exceptions included in this rule that are easy to exploit and will likely swallow the rule whole,” Jacobs says. One of the major exceptions to the rule applies to families that are determined to be eligible for withholding of removal (which, like asylum, provides protection for aliens who make certain persecution or torture claims).
Host:
Mark Krikorian
Organization
Center for Immigration Studies

January 2023

Parsing Immigration Policy
Parsing Immigration Policy

E-Verify: The Key to Deterring Illegal Immigration

Summary The primary reason illegal immigrants come to the United States is jobs, and the best solution for shutting off the magnet of jobs is E-Verify. This free online system, created by Congress as a pilot program in 1986, enables employers to check whether new hires are authorized to work in the United States by submitting the same information that job applicants provide on the mandatory paper I-9 form. The program then validates applicant details by comparing them against millions of federal and state government identification records. E-Verify processed 42.5 million cases in FY 2021 with a 99.87 percent accuracy rate. A simple DHS regulatory change or an act by Congress could mandate E-Verify for all states. This week’s guest, Elizabeth Jacobs, the Center’s Director of Regulatory Affairs and Policy, highlights the benefits that E-Verify affords employers and their communities.
Host:
Mark Krikorian
Organization
Center for Immigration Studies