NEW YORK CITY - Immigration judges and asylum officers will now have more access to classified information to help them more easily identify migrants that may have ties to terrorism or pose a threat to public safety, according to a new exclusive report by NBC News.
The new policy, initially announced on a May 9 memo by the Biden administration, instructs asylum officers making an initial determination about an immigrant's eligibility to pursue an asylum claim to go to the head of their individual agency, like ICE or U.S. Citizenship and Immigration services, for approval to share classified information.
