The agency also failed to spend roughly $1 million set aside for a the first-time homebuyer program, despite telling applicants it was out of funds

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Where USCIS work permit application fees are listed by type: www.uscis.gov/g-1055?form=...

While the Trump admin. has gone beyond the law, the Laken Riley Act still can funnel many immigrants into federal custody.

And as @kathleenbush.bsky.social noted, once in ICE detention, it has hard to get out, even when the law is on your side: www.theredoubt.net/congress-kil...

Notably, it says nothing about whether applicants will have a fair chance to seek asylum or whether they will be safe while doing so (both of those are required by the statute). But where's the actual agreement, which Guatemala said in June doesn't exist?

Under the asylum statute, INA 208(a)(2), the US can bar an asylum seeker from seeking protection if we have a Safe Third Country agreement and that person could be sent there. Trump is getting ready to try to wipe out a huge swath of asylum cases with these agreements.

In my immigration court cases, the DHS has begun to ask courts to not allow asylum seekers to make their claims, citing these agreements. And last month, the BIA said yeah, that all sounds great (see below). But I've seen no reporting on whether the agreements exist. www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...

Specifically, OMB finished its review of a proposed rule on "Employment Authorization Reform for Asylum Applicants." The only detail we have is the short description in the government's list of planned regulatory changes -- the "Unified Agenda": www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eA... (2/2)