President Joe Biden was widely expected to lift restrictions this summer that have blocked migrants from seeking asylum since the start of the pandemic. The fast-spreading delta variant of the Covid-19 virus and surging numbers of border apprehensions have derailed those plans.
Meanwhile, U.S. Border Patrol agents are considering closing checkpoints in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, as they grapple with a high number of migrants in their custody,. Border apprehensions for the fiscal year surpassed 1 million in June, according to the latest U.S. Customs and Border Protection figures. In June, specifically, more than 188,000 migrants were apprehended at the border, marking a 21-year high.
Rep. Frederica Wilson , citing the thousands of immigrants sent back to crisis-racked Haiti, organized a letter to the administration urging an end to Title 42 earlier this year but received no explanation for the continued delay. “I...am very disappointed that Title 42 expulsions have not ended,” she said. “This policy is one of the last vestiges of the Trump/Stephen Miller immigration agenda.”
“It’s easy to describe what a workable system looks like, but it’s very hard to actually put it in place,” said Frank Sharry, executive director of immigrant advocacy group America’s Voice. “They’re trying to stand up an asylum system that was gutted. And they have a huge challenge in how to uphold our asylum laws, but I underscore — they are laws.”
vital that a new policy be supported supporting the many Immigrants and refugees fleeing their countries due to Climate Change, violence and socio-economic circumstances.
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What border restrictions? America has always been easy to fly into...its just land borders that are restricted...
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