US Will Call on Other Nations to Restrict Global Asylum Rights

The US will use this year’s gathering of the United Nations General Assembly to push other countries to adopt more restrictions on asylum, in keeping with President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration.

US representatives will make a case for asylum-seekers to request asylum in the first country they transit through, “instead of continuing to maintain a haphazard and chaotic system,” according to a State Department statement. Asylum-seekers shouldn’t have the right to pick the country they move to, it said.