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Charging asylum application fees is the latest way the US could make immigrants pay for its red tape

  • Written by Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes, Lecturer and Clinical Instructor of Law; Associate Director of the Immigrants’ Rights and Human Trafficking Clinic, Boston University
Charging asylum application fees is the latest way the US could make immigrants pay for its red tapeAsylum seekers, lining up in Tijuana in 2018AP Photo/Gregory Bull

The Trump administration wants to make people fleeing persecution in their home countries pay for something they’ve long gotten for free: the right to apply for asylum in the United States.

As an immigration attorney and a law professor who has represented people seeking asylum...

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