Heritage Foundation Calls for Prosecuting Individual Asylum Fraud Claimants as Next Border Enforcement Tool

The Heritage Foundation argues that the Trump administration's recent push to target immigration lawyers for mass asylum fraud is insufficient. To deter future migration crises, the article calls for prosecuting and imprisoning individual asylum claimants who lie under oath ('single scope' cases). It cites a 2015 GAO report showing that U.S. Attorneys have historically declined such cases, creating a disincentive for investigations by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and USCIS's Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate (FDNS). The author proposes that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appoint a Special Attorney under 28 USC 543 to prioritize these prosecutions nationwide, breaking the cycle of non-enforcement.