Asylum-Seekers Still Arrive at the US Border, but What Will Happen to Them?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Moments after Trump took office, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced it had scrubbed the system used to schedule asylum interviews and canceled tens of thousands of existing appointments.
43% : What asylum-seekers now find, according to lawyers, activists and immigrants, is a murky, ever-changing situation with few obvious rules, where people can be deported to countries they know nothing about after fleeting conversations with immigration officials while others languish in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.
39% : The government says its declaration of an invasion is not subject to judicial oversight, at one point calling it "an unreviewable political question.
32% : " But rights groups fighting the asylum proclamation, led by the American Civil Liberties Union, called it "as unlawful as it is unprecedented" in the complaint filed in a Washington, D.C., federal court. Illegal border crossings, which soared in the first years of President Joe Biden's administration, reaching nearly 10,000 arrests per day in late 2024, dropped significantly during his last year in office and plunged further after Trump returned to the White House.
26% : Attorneys who work frequently with asylum-seekers at the border say their phones have gone quiet since Trump took office.

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