Time
“Cautious Hope for Vulnerable Asylum Seekers Under ‘Remain in Mexico’ As the Biden Administration Announces Processing of Cases.”
Friday, February 12, 2021,
By Lily Datz
, research assistant professor in the Newhouse School with the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), was quoted in the Time story “.” Kocher, an expert on immigration and asylum, says that the U.S. government is morally and legally responsible to provide individuals with the opportunity to apply for asylum in America. However, Kocher says this is difficult, as “DHS’s process for hearing these remaining cases relies on a virtual registration process that may actually exclude precisely those asylum-seekers who don’t have access to technology and who are the most in need of protection.”