Following Hurricane Helene’s catastrophic damage throughout Florida’s gulf coast, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) met with the Florida Farm Bureau as well as local agricultural producers, farmers, and growers to discuss the storm’s impact. Photos are courtesy of...
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Rubio, Colleagues Introduce Resolution to Repeal Proposed Biden Administration Asylum Process
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) introduced a resolution of disapproval (S.J. Res. 46) under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to dissolve a proposed rule by the Biden Administration that would illegally upend the process by which the U.S. government considers asylum claims by removing immigration judges from initial screenings.
Click here for a full list of original cosponsors.
The full text of the resolution is below.
Providing for congressional disapproval under Chapter 8 of Title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security relating to “Procedures for Credible Fear Screening and Consideration of Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and CAT Protection Claims by Asylum Officers.”
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security relating to “Procedures for Credible Fear Screening and Consideration of Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and CAT Protection Claims by Asylum Officers” (87 Fed. Reg 18078 (March 29, 2022)), and such rule shall have no force or effect.