A former Biden official is criticizing a new rule announced on Tuesday that would limit the ability to claim asylum for some migrants who crossed illegally.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on"Worldwide Threats to the Homeland" on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 15, 2022.
Unaccompanied children are exempt, and there would be other factors that could rebut the presumption, including an acute medical emergency, being a trafficking victim, and facing an"extreme and imminent" threat to life or safety. Immigration advocates and Democrats have reacted with dismay to the policy, which is similar to the"transit ban" which was proposed by the Trump administration and ultimately blocked by the courts. Administration officials have repeatedly rejected comparisons to the transit ban, citing the existence and expansion of legal pathways available to migrants. They have argued that, unlike in the Trump administration, pathways remain open to claim asylum.
But that explanation has failed to satisfy activists, who have accused the administration of chipping away at a right to asylum."For an Administration that strives to uphold racial equity, it is deeply disheartening to watch them normalize the dehumanizing narrative that Black and brown migrants at the southern border deserve to be punished for seeking out a legal pathway that Congress provided for them," Flores tweeted.
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