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Sarah Pierce

Sarah Pierce

Director of Social Policy, Third Way

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The five-year journey of Trump's pandemic asylum ban

Rule Changes

Immigration policy analyst and former Migration Policy Institute researcher

A Trump-era rule takes effect December 31, 2025, allowing immigration officials to deny asylum to anyone deemed a security threat because of communicable diseases during public health emergencies. Originally published in December 2020 and scheduled to go live three weeks later, the rule was delayed five times by Biden's DHS but never killed. Now it becomes law under Trump's second term, despite no active pandemic.

Updated Dec 31, 2025