Asylum applicants would have a harder time getting work permits under a proposed regulation released by the Homeland Security Department Nov. 13.
If the regulation goes into effect as proposed, asylum applicants would have to wait a full year before they could apply for a work permit, and would have to be fingerprinted to receive one. They also had to have come into the U.S. through a port of entry.
The DHS additionally is proposing to exclude various groups of asylum applicants from being able to get a work permit at all, including certain types of criminals and those ...