§6474 Studies on Effect of Expedited Removal Provisions on Asylum Claims

Summary

Requires the Attorney General to invite experts picked by the Commission to work with the Comptroller General to study how immigration officers handle people who might qualify for asylum under section 1225(b). The study must check for four problems: pushing people to withdraw their entry requests, failing to send them for a credible‑fear interview, sending them back to a country where they could be persecuted, or holding them wrongly or in bad conditions. The Comptroller General does the study alone or with the invited experts if the Commission asks. The Comptroller General must send 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 Commission’s experts may also submit a report with or separate from the Comptroller General’s. To do the work, the Attorney General must give the Comptroller General and, when requested, the experts full access to the proceedings, unless the person objects or the Attorney General finds a security risk; any limits on expert access must not violate international law.