{"id":629265,"date":"2018-09-25T07:10:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T13:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=629265"},"modified":"2018-09-25T08:43:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T14:43:04","slug":"migrants-get-a-second-chance-at-asylum-but-its-still-an-uphill-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2018\/09\/migrants-get-a-second-chance-at-asylum-but-its-still-an-uphill-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrants get a second chance at asylum, but it\u2019s still ‘an uphill battle’"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Immigrants\"

Ivan Pierre Aguirre \/ for The Texas Tribune<\/p>

Immigrants arrive at the Casa Vides Annunciation House shelter after being released from U.S. CBP custody on June 24 in El Paso. According to the director of the shelter, all the migrants released today are parents and have been separated from their children.<\/p><\/div>\n

Ruby Powers didn’t rush to celebrate when her client, a Honduran mother who has been separated from her 15-year-old son and detained for four months, passed her second “credible fear” interview to restart the asylum process.<\/p>\n

Although the president and the American Civil Liberties Union have come to an agreement giving migrant families separated at the border this summer a second chance to make their case<\/a> for staying in the country, immigration lawyers say the Trump administration is still working overtime to upend the nation’s asylum process<\/a>. And while a few hundred people may get a second chance at asylum, there are likely tens of thousands of asylum-seekers who will be subject to a tightened asylum process.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s infinitely harder on all levels,” Powers said. “With the chipping away of the asylum law, it\u2019s an uphill battle to try to get an approval.\u201d<\/p>\n