A NY Times debate explores the immigration asylum system and how it can be "fixed".  One entry by Bill Frelick of Human Rights Watch suggests we "give asylum seekers the same rights to legal representation that criminal suspects enjoy":  A second entry is by Philip Schrag, the Delaney Family Professor of Public Interest Law at Georgetown University, and he argues  the "ban" on the federal government providing free counseling (presumably 8 CFR 1240.48, which states the right to counsel  "at no expense to the government") should be reversed.