I’m submitting my concerns regarding the proposed changes to the Procedures for Asylum and Withholding of Removal; Credible Fear & Reasonable Fear Review. I have spent the last three years working with asylum seekers in Phoenix, Arizona, after they have been released from ICE custody. I have participated in interviews of their experiences in their home countries, as well as the countries they have traveled through to get to the United States. Many of their experiences involve horrific violence, torture, the kidnapping of children and death threats for refusing to sell drugs. The most common feature of these horrible experiences was that the government couldn’t or wouldn’t do anything to protect its own citizens. 

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