Legal Updates When Asylum Confidentiality Meets International Police Cooperation
International police cooperation is based on trust that participating states will act in good faith and that shared information will not be misused. US asylum law rests on a different assumption: contact with an asylum seeker’s home government can create danger. When these frameworks intersect, as they do in cases involving alerts issued by INTERPOL, tensions arise that can expose asylum seekers and complicate adjudication, and which remain largely unaddressed in law or policy.
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