“This is what the Trump administration would be doing… trying to aggressively discourage families from filing lawsuits,” said ASAP Co-ED Conchita Cruz about the Biden DOJ’s tactics against separated families.

As more Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, Cuban families arrive at the border, ASAP Co-ED Conchita Cruz said the federal government continues to evade its duty under the law to provide work permits for asylum seekers in 30 days.

“They were headed toward re-traumatizing these families," said Conchita Cruz, co-executive director of ASAP. "This is the thing that the Trump administration would’ve done and did do.”

ASAP Co-Executive Director Conchita Cruz said that the government is failing in its duty to process asylum seekers’ work permits in 30 days, noting that New York’s mayor is “literally asking the government to abide by the law.”

“We connect with members through the mediums they trust—the mediums they use to communicate with their families in the United States and abroad,” says Swapna Reddy, co-executive director of ASAP.

The government is not processing asylum seekers' work permit applications. “At this rate, if it goes on, I’m going to use up my savings pretty soon. If that happens, I’m not sure what to do,” ASAP member Rickie Chiu said.

ASAP member and doctor Helen Muradyan shares how she found out about ASAP and got help when she needed her work permit renewed.

ASAP members' success in extending work permits "protects as many as 420,000 immigrants from losing their ability to work in this country," federal officials estimated.