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Immigration Officials Change Screening Process for Asylum Applicants

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When a person facing deportation tells an immigration agent they are afraid of returning to their country, an asylum officer has to interview them to determine if they might be able to win asylum. But immigration lawyers say that new training guidelines released by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on how to conduct asylum interviews raise the bar to even get in front of a judge.

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