A dozen Senate Democrats forcefully denounced a sweeping border restriction President Biden hopes will deter migration, telling the administration in a formal comment on Monday that it would violate U.S. asylum law if it moves forward with the proposal.
refugee agency, in formally imploring the administration to immediately withdraw the regulation.
"Although we support the administration's goal of managing migration at the U.S.-Mexico border by creating new efficiencies in the asylum system, this rule violates our legal obligations to protect refugees fleeing persecution and usurps Congressional authority by adding unlawful bars to asylum eligibility," the senators added.
The scathing rebuke from a dozen Democratic Senators and allies of the White House on most policy matters illustrates the tricky political situation Mr. Biden has found himself in two years into his presidency amid an unprecedented migration crisis along the southern border, where migrants have been arriving in greater numbers and from more countries than any time in U.S. history.
While U.S. border officials have expelled hundreds of thousands of migrants under Title 42 since the public health law was invoked in March 2020 by the Trump administration, the U.S. could only expel Mexicans and some Central Americans to Mexico before Mexican officials agreed to accept Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in January.
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