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The Government of the President of USA, Joe Bidenenacted this Thursday a new rule that seeks to raise the standards under which asylum can be requested at the southern border.
The rule, which will enter a review phase before coming into force, will instruct immigration agents to ban people considered “risk to public or national security”can submit an asylum application and therefore be admitted to the country.
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These filters are already applied in the study of asylum cases, but with this new measure the Executive allows them to be used during the “interview” phase.credible fear“, where it is decided whether or not a person meets the requirements to request protection after crossing the border with Mexico.
The Administration of Joe Biden estimates that these new rules will only affect a small number of people.
Specifically, those who have serious criminal records or who are linked to criminal activities. “And that’s just a small percentage of all people.” who are detained every day at the southern border, a senior official said during a call with journalists.
People who are denied the possibility of seeking asylum are immediately expelled to Mexico or begin formal deportation proceedings, depending on their nationality.
This new measure comes in the middle of an election year in which the immigration It is one of the central themes. Former president and Republican presidential candidate, donald trump (2017-2021), adopted anti-immigrant rhetoric and accuses Biden of having created a “crisis” in the border.
It is not the first time that the The White House announces changes to asylum regulations in an attempt to limit people arriving at the southern border.
Just a year ago, the Democratic Government introduced a series of changes that it describes as “improper”to apply for asylum migrants who cross the border irregularly and who have not requested protection in a third country during their journey to U.S.
Although the number of border arrests decreased significantly during the first few months of this year, in 2023 the US saw a record of more than 2.3 million migrant arrests.
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The global context of a historic increase in the number of displaced people on the continent, together with pressure from the opposition and the moderate wing of his party, led Biden to abandon his campaign promises of “to restore”The asylum system.
On the contrary, during the first years the Democratic Administration maintained restrictive policies inherited from the previous Government, such as the so-called Title 42that allowed cold returns, and then expanded or replaced them with new rules that seek to limit the number of people who can seek asylum at the southern border.
In return, the The White House promoted “humanitarian legal pathways”for people of some nationalities (Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua It is Venezuela), which allowed more than 400,000 people to enter the United States.
Source: Elcomercio
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