Slate -On Monday, the Trump administration made likely its most brazen attempt yet to block the asylum claims of people fleeing violence in Central America. A new rule published in the Federal Register, which will take effect on Tuesday, would bar people from eligibility for asylum if they pass through a third country on their way from their home country to the United States and do not first apply for asylum there.
For example, if victims of violence or persecution in Honduras claim asylum in the United States after first traveling through Guatemala and Mexico, they can be denied on the basis that they did not first claim asylum in either of those countries. This would apply to the vast majority of asylum-seekers arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. The rule does not include an exception for unaccompanied children.
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