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Migrants gather outside an office of Mexico's Refugee Aid Commission in Tapachula, Mexico September 25, 2023. REUTERS/Jose Torres/File Photo
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The Trump administration plans to call for sharply narrowing the right to asylum at the United Nations later this month, documents show, as it seeks to undo the post-World War II framework around humanitarian protection. Here’s what to know: |
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U.S. State Department officials sketched out plans for an event later this month on the sidelines of the U.N.'s annual general assembly meeting that would call for reframing the global approach to asylum and immigration to reflect President Trump's restrictive stance.
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Under the proposed framework, asylum seekers would be required to claim protection in the first country they enter, not a nation of their choosing.
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Asylum would be temporary and the host country would decide whether conditions in the migrants’ home country had improved enough to return, a major shift from how asylum works in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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With the U.N. event, Trump would be taking that restrictive vision global, urging its adoption by the world body that established the international legal framework for the right to seek asylum.
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Adoption of the plan would mark a stunning shift in the global order for migration, going beyond Trump's hardline approach in his 2017-2021 presidency. Ted Hesson and Jonathan Landay have more about the plan here.
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U.S. District Judge William Young in Boston will hold a motion hearing in a lawsuit challenging the Military Selective Service Act, which requires men to register for the draft but bars women from doing so. The plaintiff alleges that her attempt to register for the Selective Service was rejected on the basis of her gender, violating the Equal Rights Amendment and the Fifth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. Read the complaint here.
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The 3rd Circuit will hear arguments in a long-running case alleging Uber misclassified UberBLACK drivers in Pennsylvania as independent contractors rather than its employees. Last year, U.S. District Judge Michael Baylson, in an unusual ruling, dismissed the lawsuit saying a third trial would be futile after two separate juries deadlocked. Baylson, in one of the first decisions of its kind in 2018, said the drivers were not Uber's employees under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. The 3rd Circuit reversed him two years later, paving the way for the case to go to trial.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes. |
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