The Administration is trying to get more power to DENY asylum applications without a hearing, simply based on the original application.
Asylum Updates: Asylum Cooperative Agreements (ACA)
- DHS filing motions to pretermit asylum
- Many possible agreements in play
- Honduras
- Guatemala
- Ecuador
- Uganda, Haiti, Belize and Paraguay
- Applied to those who entered at or between ports of entry on or after November 19, 2019
- CE counsel conceded Honduras cap has been reached, rescinding motions in some cases.
- Immigration Judges still pretermitting, see Matter of C-I-G-M- & L-V-S-G-, 29 I&N Dec. 291 (BIA 2025).
- ICE motions for pretermission asserting multiple agreements
- Regs direct Immigration Judges to order removal in the alternative if multiple agreements are raised