According to a press release issued by the Department of Homeland Security, the Trump administration’s top immigration prosecutors will begin to pursue fraud cases against lawyers pushing fake asylum cases.
The release states that ICE attorneys have been given greater authority in enforcing laws that outlaw document fraud. Previous cases have focused largely on the asylum applicant, but the new policy will help the Trump administration to combat illegal immigration by specifically targeting the attorneys who draft and file the bogus applications.
“For many years, millions of illegal aliens have committed fraud in our immigration system. No place is this more rampant than in immigration court,” DHS General Counsel James Percival said in the press release. “Protection claims like asylum are intended to cover unique and narrow circumstances, but it is standard practice for immigration attorneys representing illegal aliens to assert that virtually every illegal alien is going to be persecuted or tortured in his or her home country.”