Media: Trump administration pursues new strategy to dismiss asylum claims

The Trump administration has launched a nationwide effort aimed at voiding asylum claims of thousands of individuals with active cases in immigration courts.

The strategy involves arguing that asylum-seekers can be deported to countries other than their own, Reuters reports.

Requests for comment from the White House, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the Department of Homeland Security were not immediately returned.

According to CBS, the administration’s new approach entails ICE attorneys asking immigration judges to dismiss asylum cases without evaluating them on their merits. The attorneys have also requested that judges order asylum-seekers to be deported to countries including Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, and Uganda.

The report arrives as President Donald Trump prepares for a more aggressive immigration crackdown in 2026, backed by billions of dollars in additional funding. ICE and US Border Patrol are slated to receive $170 billion through September 2029—a significant increase over their current annual budgets of roughly $19 billion—following the passage of a massive spending package by the Republican-controlled Congress in July.

By Vafa Guliyeva