DHS considering plan for quick asylum rejection, no interview, for application violators: report

The Trump administration is reportedly developing a plan to allow federal immigration officials to quickly reject some asylum applications without having to interview them.

 The plan is being reported by CBS News, based upon what it says are internal federal government documents.

The plan would purportedly allow U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials to reject asylum applications if applicants filed then a year after their arrival in the U.S. The agency is under the Department of Homeland Security.

Federal immigration law already generally disqualifies asylum applicants if they file a year after entering the country, with some exceptions including a serious medical condition or poor legal counsel. And unaccompanied minors also are not subject to the deadline, CBS News also reports.

The regulation outlined in the internal federal documents would still allow immigration officials to proceed with an asylum case and schedule an interview if they determine the applicants meet one of the exceptions. However, the regulation, if implemented, would alter USCIS's longstanding policy of interviewing essentially all asylum applicants before making a decision on their claims, also according to the news outlet.