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Originally Posted by jamesp
Well technically speaking, if you apply for an immigration benefit while being out of status, seek asylum for example, your appeal will most likely be rejected. And in the aftermath of such rejection, ICE will put your in deportation proceeding. Then you are in the pipeline. Whether or not you will benefit from the new policy is unpredictable. As someone mentioned earlier, most immigration lawyers and experts advise against voluntarily putting yourself in the pipeline. I'd say it's still early to assess the how the new policy will be implemented.
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My point is after your asylum application is rejected, you would normally be put into deportation. What the new policy says is people who pose no threat will no longer be put into deportation, because they are not going to be deported anyway. So you can't benefit from this.