Protect the Right to Seek Asylum

Two federal courts ruled the 2025 border asylum ban unlawful, but it stays in force while the government appeals to the Supreme Court.

A letter to your members of Congress. Facts checked September 24, 2026.

The explainer behind this letter Asylum Who qualifies for asylum, how the process works, and the backlog

The Letter

Subject Protect the right to seek asylum in law

The right to ask for asylum is one of the clearest promises in our law. Anyone who reaches our soil and fears persecution can ask for protection, however they got here. I am asking you to keep that promise.

A 2025 proclamation shut asylum at the southern border. Two federal courts have ruled it unlawful, because a president cannot erase a statute Congress wrote, yet it stays in force while the government appeals to the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, 2.3 million asylum applications are waiting in immigration courts that lost 178 judges in about 15 months.

People with real claims should get a fair hearing before anyone sends them back to danger.

Please oppose any law or order that suspends the right to seek asylum, and write that right into law so no president can switch it off.

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I'm a constituent calling to ask the senator or representative to protect the legal right to seek asylum.
Two federal courts ruled the 2025 border asylum ban unlawful, but it stays in force while the government appeals to the Supreme Court.
2.3 million asylum applications are waiting in immigration court, and the courts lost 178 permanent judges in about 15 months.
Please oppose any law or order that suspends asylum, and protect the right to seek it in law.

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The Facts Behind the Ask

2.3 million asylum applications pending in immigration court in June 2026 (source)
7.5% of court asylum decisions were grants in fiscal 2026 through June, down from 45.7% in 2024 (source)
178 permanent immigration judges lost, net, from the end of fiscal 2024 to December 2025 (source)
Aug 24, 2026 the government asked the Supreme Court to revive the border asylum ban two courts ruled unlawful (source)

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