ICE Discontinues Program for Asylum Seekers
The Takeaway | Jun 19, 2017
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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency program aimed at providing services to asylum seekers —mostly women and their children — while allowing them to avoid detention is being discontinued. The federally-funded program has enrolled approximately 630 families, and advocates say the initiative has been both successful and compassionate to a vulnerable population.
Katharina Obser, senior program officer in the Women’s Refugee Commission’s Migrant Rights and Justice program, explains what losing the program will mean.
