President. I urge my colleagues to support the FeingoldBrownback amendment. This amendment will ensure that asylum seekers. victims of trafficking. and other immigrants can have meaningful judicial review of removal orders. The amendment would strike from the bill a provision that would have the absurd result of making it harder. in many cases. for an immigrant to get a temporary stay of removal pending appeal than to actually win on the merits of the case. Let me state this in very clear terms. If this provision is not struck from the bill. people with meritorious asylum claims will be sent back to countries where they will face persecution or even death before a Federal court can even hear their arguments. Current law allows courts to deny stays to people with frivolous claims who are using delay tactics. This provision. then. is a solution in search of a problem. and one that creates potentially devastating problems of its own.
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