Christopher Kahn

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267 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 3 Sep

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The Excerpt · What Trump’s asylum change means for people seeking protection · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

kind of very specific dates and names and these certain things that could be flagged in someone's application.

And so these interviews that these asylum officers conduct gives the applicant a place to kind of explain those and talk to them in that, again, that non-adversarial environment.

Yes.

As you mentioned, the asylum system has an enormous backlog.

There's about 1.4 million cases pending.

And so there's a need, a legitimate need, to move cases faster.

And the average wait time for asylum cases is between four to seven years, according to the Migration Policy Institute.

So there's many cases in which there's clear evidence that someone doesn't meet the standard for asylum, such as those involving people who are convicted, let's say, of serious crimes.

But experts said that implementing this rule kind of beyond those cases and doing so without the advice of trained asylum officers could punish law abiding asylum seekers who've worked for years to gain a path towards citizenship.

So they're

There is a need, but there's a question of how the administration will implement this new rule.

That's still kind of an open question.

We haven't seen that yet.

So in the immigration system, immigrants are not entitled to a lawyer.

So those who can't afford one have to go through the cases alone without legal representation.

And that makes a big difference.

Many asylum speakers aren't fluent in English, don't have a formal education, and some are even disabled.

So for them, especially if they're in immigration court and you're up against it,

trained government lawyer, you would have a very difficult time.

There's also instances where people who had applied for asylum, they could still be arrested and detained and detained until they have their cases heard.

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