federal regulation that would create insurmountable barriers to the vast majority of asylum claims, including by gutting the definition of refugee to the point where lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender asylum seekers will be effectively excluded.People have until the end of the day on Wednesday (July 15) to submit comments on the proposed federal rule [EOIR-2020-0003-0001] and to call on the U.S.
government to revoke it.The regulation would force asylum seekers to declare the “particular social group” they belong to during their first asylum hearing.