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18 Refugee Reports 1 (1997)

handle is hein.immigration/refgrpt0018 and id is 1 raw text is: Refugee Reports A News Service of the U.S. Committee for Refugees 1717 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Suite 701 Washington, DC 20036 (202) 347-3507 Volume XVIII, Number I January 31, 1997 INS AND EOIR PROPOSE REGULATIONS Td IMPLEMENT NEW LAW ON ASYLUM, SUMMARY REMOVAL, AND MORE On January 3, the Immigration and NaturalizatioNSUL vice (INS) and the Executive Office of Immigratiorl ( (EOIR) published a proposed regulation in the Federal Register to implement key provisions of the Illegal Immi- gration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) and the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Pen- alty Act of 1996 (AEDPA), including rules relating to the asylum procedure and to expedited removal for improp- erly documented aliens. The proposed rule has a 30-day comment period, ending February 3, 1997. The comment period is short because most provisions of the new law come into effect on April 1. The INS and EOIR (hereafter, the agencies) com- plained in the Federal Register notice that Congress gave them an extremely short time frame for completing the regulatory process for a rule of this magnitude,'.:ajd 6 that the five-month period between the passaeof [thp-i, legislation and its effective date means that tere isAAt adequate time for the usual rulemaking model of 60 days public notice. The agencies said that to compensate for the 30- day comment period they would allow a 120-day com- ment period between the time the regulation becomes an interim rule (the beginning of March) and when it be- comes a final rule. In addition to establishing new procedures for both expedited and regular removal proceedings and the han- dling of asylum claims, the proposed regulations also address other activities involving the apprehension, de- tention, hearing of claims, and removal of inadmissible and deportable aliens. Among the dramatic changes in U.S. immigration law that the proposed rule had to reflect is a change that consolidates exclusion and deportation into a single removal proceeding. What, until now, has been known as exclusion will now be known as inadmissibility. IN THIS ISSUE: abe INS and EOIR have proposed N regulation to implement ele- ments of two new laws affecting asylum seekers. Co-editor Bill Frelick reports ......................... 1 * Recent Developments Impact of new forced abortion/ sterilization law on asylum seekers ................................ 6 Women in INS detention ......... 8 Chronology of 1996 U.S. refugee and asylum programs and policies ...................... 12 . Updates ................ 10 * Reader Exchange ... 14 * Resources .............. 14 * Conferences ........... 15 * Job Board ............ 15 * Statistics Groups eligible for Temporary Protected Status ............... 16

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