Immigrants seeking asylum in the United States often face excessive delays in getting authorization to work and, in some cases, are forced to work illegally out of desperation because of government mismanagement of their work applications under federal laws and regulations, according to a new report.
The problems center around the so-called asylum clock, which potentially affects more than 50,000 asylum applicants per year, according to the report by the Center for Immigrants’ Rights at the Penn State Dickinson School of Law and the American Immigration Council’s Legal Action Center.
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