161-page rule announced on June 15 that they say will virtually block many desperate LGBTQ folks from gaining asylum in the US. “This is like Stephen Miller’s magnum opus to just eviscerate the asylum system,” Bridget Crawford, legal director of the charity Immigration Equality, told BuzzFeed LGBTQ.According to the Administrative Procedure Act, the government is required to address every unique comment, so critics urged the general public to send their thoughts by July 15 in order to slow down the implementation by months.
Advocacy organizations were given a 30-day period to spread the news and submit as many public comments on the rule as possible. “[T]he fact that organizations like us had 30 days to comment on it and say what’s wrong.