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67 Loy. L. Rev. 121 (2020-2021)
Asylum under Attack: Restoring Asylum Protection in the United States

handle is hein.journals/loyolr67 and id is 131 raw text is: ASYLUM UNDER ATTACK: RESTORING ASYLUM PROTECTION IN THE UNITED STATES Lindsay M. Harris* ABSTRACT The U.S. asylum system has endured four years of system- atic attack. The Trump Administration attempted to dismantle the United States' system to protect asylum seekers through changes to case law, executive orders, presidential proclama- tions, internal agency guidance and sweeping regulatory changes, among other measures. The system largely ground to a halt after the Trump Administration co-opted the coronavirus public health crisis to effectively close the southern border to asylum seekers with its March 2020 Centers for Disease Control order. This catastrophic order was not even the last in a long line of the Trump Administration's efforts since assuming power to obliterate asylum protection. Building on the actions from 2017 forward, even in its waning days, the Trump Admin- istration proposed and finalized numerous sets of regulations to undermine and eviscerate asylum protection. A combination of public outcry and litigation halted or limited some of the Trump Administration's attempts to under- mine asylum protection. Other policies went into effect and * Associate Professor of Law, Director, Immigration & Human Rights Clinic, University of the District of Columbia - David A. Clarke School of Law, J.D. Berkeley Law School, L.L.M, Georgetown University Law Center. My thanks to Saba Ahmed, Jillian Blake, Shaw Drake, Karen Musalo, Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Aaron Reichlin- Melnick, Erica Schommer, and Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia for sharing their insight. Thank you to my spouse, Brian R. Israel, for all the ways in which he made this possible for me to write this piece during a summer of pandemic-parenting in 2020 and to Maggie Harris for Grandma School and moving across the country to supervise remote learning from September to March. This article, and so much more, simply would not have been possible without that support. Thank you to Stephanie Brown for research assistance and to the editors of the Loyola Law Review for their diligence and thoughtfulness. Finally, I appreciate summer research funding from UDC Law. All errors are my own. 121