§6474 Studies on effect of expedited removal provisions on asylum claims

Summary

The Comptroller General must study whether immigration officers who handle initial inspections under section 1225(b) of title 8 are doing certain improper things. If a commission asks, the Attorney General must invite experts picked by that commission to work with the Comptroller General. The study must check if officers are encouraging people to withdraw their applications, wrongly failing to send them for a credible-fear interview, wrongly removing them to places where they could be persecuted, or detaining them improperly or in bad conditions. The Comptroller General must send a report with the study results to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, the House Committee on International Relations, and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations by September 1, 2000. The experts may submit their own report or join the Comptroller General’s report. To do the work, the Attorney General must give the Comptroller General and, when requested, the experts full access to all steps of section 1225(b) proceedings unless the alien objects or access would threaten security; any limits on expert access must not violate international law.