5. Department of Homeland Security · Notable · Needs Congress
Explicitly authorize PACR and HARP-style expedited pathways
Printed page 149 5. Department of Homeland Security
“Other expedited pathways. Congress should explicitly permit programs akin to the Prompt Asylum Claim Review (PACR) and Humanitarian Asylum Review Process (HARP) programs.”
What has happened
- Not started
Congress has not explicitly permitted PACR- or HARP-style expedited pathways. The administration has instead pushed the same objective through the expedited-removal designation (#316), which is executive action under existing authority and leaves the statutory authorization this Quote asks for undone.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
A Requires-Congress ask.
Searched 2026-08-28: presidential documents, final rules, proposed rules and notices in the Federal Register from DHS and its components; bills in Congress and public laws, from congress.gov; White House presidential actions; and federal court dockets (CourtListener), including a bulk snapshot of 1.2 million dockets. No bill authorizing Prompt Asylum Claim Review, the Humanitarian Asylum Review Process or any similar expedited pathway was found, in either chamber.
- Action
- create
- Object
- PACR and HARP expedited pathways
- ID
- 359