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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

Asylum 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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