I think there's a big difference between a notion of expediting claims on the basis of country of origin and denying access to something as fundamental as an appeal hearing in something as consequential as a refugee claim. I think the high commissioner's comments were dealing with timelines and speeding up processing. Of course, that's the compromise that was reached earlier in the Balanced Refugee Reform Act, using country of origin lists as a means for expediting. Amnesty International does still have concerns about the very concept, and I think we speak authoritatively as an organization that researches, documents, and reports on human rights violations all the time, as to the real difficulties in coming up with country of origin lists that are reliable. But at a minimum, the Balanced Refugee Reform Act took an approach that wasn't about something as fundamental as denying access to an appeal hearing.
On May 7th, 2012. See this statement in context.