Op-Ed: Continuing Trump’s pretext to block asylum claims, Biden defies the law and good politics
3 years, 1 month ago

Op-Ed: Continuing Trump’s pretext to block asylum claims, Biden defies the law and good politics

LA Times  

Dozens of men, women and children were led by U.S. Border Patrol agents and police to a holding area in June 2019 after they crossed into the U.S. to seek asylum. Just as the Trump administration invoked it in March 2020, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced this summer that it would continue, the Biden administration could revoke Title 42 now, permitting asylum applications again in compliance with our legal obligations. This misuse of Title 42 authority, a public health law, was the brainchild of former President Trump’s senior advisor Stephen Miller. Evidently not satisfied with the administration’s brutal “Remain in Mexico” policy, which forced asylum seekers to await their hearings in Mexico, once COVID-19 struck Miller decided the pandemic could be used as a pretext to close the border, denying migrants the right to even seek asylum. Leading public health experts have called for an end to the border closure and provided detailed guidance for measures the administration could undertake to ensure community health and safety while admitting asylum seekers.

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How Biden’s new order to halt asylum at the US border is supposed to work
6 months, 2 weeks ago

How Biden’s new order to halt asylum at the US border is supposed to work

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled a halt to asylum processing at the U.S. border with Mexico when illegal entries reach a threshold that he deems excessive. Venezuelan migrants wave a U.S. flag at a television helicopter that flew over the Rio Grande, in Matamoros, Mexico, on May 12, 2023, a day after pandemic-related asylum restrictions called …

Biden to crack down on migrant crossings with order allowing him to halt new asylum claims
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Biden to crack down on migrant crossings with order allowing him to halt new asylum claims

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The plan is understood to include language that …

Biden is said to be finalizing plans for migrant limits as part of a US-Mexico border clampdown
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Biden is said to be finalizing plans for migrant limits as part of a US-Mexico border clampdown

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The White House is finalizing plans for a U.S.-Mexico border clampdown that would shut off asylum requests and automatically deny entrance to migrants once the number of people encountered by American border officials exceeded a new daily threshold, with President Joe Biden expected to sign an executive order as early as Tuesday, according to four people familiar with …

Biden administration tells judge that its new asylum rule is not a reboot of Trump’s efforts
1 year, 5 months ago

Biden administration tells judge that its new asylum rule is not a reboot of Trump’s efforts

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration argued Wednesday that its new asylum rule is different from versions put forward under President Donald Trump in a court hearing before a judge who threw out Trump’s attempts to limit asylum on the U.S.-Mexico border. President Joe Biden’s administration instituted its rule on May 11 with the expiration of a COVID-19 restriction known as …

Biden leaning into global diplomacy to manage migration at US-Mexico border
1 year, 7 months ago

Biden leaning into global diplomacy to manage migration at US-Mexico border

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — On President Joe Biden ‘s first day in office, he handed Congress a legislative plan to modernize the nation’s immigration system. So administration officials went looking outside the U.S. for solutions, seeking to portray immigration not as one of America’s most intractable problems, but as an issue for the entire Western hemisphere to address. It was a shift …

‘We want to be Americans’: Migrants flow through Mexico’s southern border after Title 42’s end
1 year, 7 months ago

‘We want to be Americans’: Migrants flow through Mexico’s southern border after Title 42’s end

LA Times  

Migrants cross the Suchiate River, which marks the border between Guatemala and Mexico, on May 9. But here, some 1,000 miles from the Rio Grande, the chaotic scene is business as usual: Huge numbers of U.S.-bound migrants — mostly South and Central Americans, but also a mix of people from Africa, Asia and Europe — are making illegal crossings of …

Immigration policy is uncertain now that Title 42 has been lifted
1 year, 7 months ago

Immigration policy is uncertain now that Title 42 has been lifted

NPR  

Immigration policy is uncertain now that Title 42 has been lifted Enlarge this image toggle caption Mario Tama/Getty Images Mario Tama/Getty Images For the last three years, a previously obscure emergency public health order allowed politicians to temporarily sidestep one of the most complicated issues in American politics — migration at the United States' southern border. Sponsor Message The Biden …

Migrants rush to the US border as Title 42 pandemic restrictions expire
1 year, 7 months ago

Migrants rush to the US border as Title 42 pandemic restrictions expire

Hindustan Times  

Migrants rush to the US border as Title 42 pandemic restrictions expire The US ended a three-year-old asylum restriction, Title 42, stirring fear among migrants that the changes would make it more. The US ended a three-year-old asylum restriction, Title 42, stirring fear among migrants that the changes would make it more difficult for them to stay on. On the …

Title 42 has ended. Here’s what it did, and how US immigration policy is changing
1 year, 7 months ago

Title 42 has ended. Here’s what it did, and how US immigration policy is changing

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The U.S. is putting new restrictions into place at its southern border to try to to stop migrants from crossing illegally and encourage them instead to apply for asylum online through a new process. The changes come with the end of coronavirus restrictions on asylum that have allowed the U.S. to quickly turn back migrants at the U.S.-Mexico …

Title 42 ends: U.S. sees a record migration influx of more than 10,000 people a DAY
1 year, 7 months ago

Title 42 ends: U.S. sees a record migration influx of more than 10,000 people a DAY

Daily Mail  

Migrants gathered on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday hours before immigration restrictions known as Title 42 expired, with some rushing to cross ahead of tough new asylum rules that will replace the COVID-era order. Here immigrants lined up to be processed to make asylum claims at a makeshift migrant camp in El Paso Migrants cross the Rio …

Pandemic-related asylum restrictions known as Title 42 expire, straining US immigration system
1 year, 7 months ago

Pandemic-related asylum restrictions known as Title 42 expire, straining US immigration system

The Independent  

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As Title 42 ends in US, asylum seekers wait for relief on border
1 year, 7 months ago

As Title 42 ends in US, asylum seekers wait for relief on border

Al Jazeera  

Advocates fear the US-Mexico border will become a ‘deportation mill’ as new policies narrow avenues for seeking asylum. That is the limbo many asylum seekers face at the US’s southern border, now that the controversial migrant expulsion policy Title 42 has expired — and uncertainty has taken its place. After taking four different flights to arrive in Tijuana, he found …

Expert: Immigration policies don’t deter migrants – Title 42 and new rules only make things worse
1 year, 7 months ago

Expert: Immigration policies don’t deter migrants – Title 42 and new rules only make things worse

Salon  

Politicians have been saying there's an immigration crisis at the border for decades and have been trying to fix it for nearly as long. And under Title 8, people who enter the country illegally could face a five-year ban from the U.S. From my work as a scholar of migration studies, I believe the new set of rules may make …

Editorial: With Title 42 ending, Biden relies on the same failed immigration policies
1 year, 7 months ago

Editorial: With Title 42 ending, Biden relies on the same failed immigration policies

LA Times  

Dozens of immigrants from as far away as India and Africa wait to be processed by Customs and Border Protection officers Friday along the border wall in Somerton, Ariz. The border management strategy known as Title 42 has allowed the United States to expel asylum-seeking migrants en masse for the past three years using a public health pretext. Operation Hold …

Biden Will Never Get Us Out of the Trump Era Like This
54 years, 11 months ago

Biden Will Never Get Us Out of the Trump Era Like This

Slate  

In March 2020, the Trump administration invoked its authority under Title 42 of the U.S. Code, a public health law, to close the southwest border to virtually anyone crossing in from Mexico. When the COVID-19 public health emergency expires on May 11, the Title 42 immigration restrictions will finally end, leaving it to the Biden administration to craft a new …

Explained: Title 42 and how its expiration will affect immigration at the US-Mexico border
1 year, 7 months ago

Explained: Title 42 and how its expiration will affect immigration at the US-Mexico border

Firstpost  

The United States is getting ready to lift COVID-19 restrictions that have blocked migrants caught at the US-Mexico border from seeking asylum since 2020, a major policy shift with humanitarian and political implications. In April, the US Border Patrol apprehended some 183,000 migrants, according to preliminary data provided by Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, a 13 …

Timeline: Title 42 expulsions at the US-Mexico border
1 year, 7 months ago

Timeline: Title 42 expulsions at the US-Mexico border

Al Jazeera  

Biden administration is preparing for end of contentious US policy that let authorities turn away most asylum seekers. August 2021: The Biden administration renews Title 42, saying lifting the policy would “exacerbate overcrowding at facilities and create significant public health risks”. September 2021: A federal judge rules that the Biden administration must stop using Title 42 expulsions against families with …

Plans set in motion as Biden administration eyes end of Covid-era border restriction
1 year, 7 months ago

Plans set in motion as Biden administration eyes end of Covid-era border restriction

CNN  

CNN — The Biden administration, already facing an increase in border crossings, is setting plans in motion to manage an anticipated influx of migrants at the US-Mexico border when a Covid-era border restriction ends next week, sources tell CNN. The Department of Homeland Security previously released a six-pillar plan that outlined the department’s operations post-Title 42, including setting up additional …

Biden ends COVID national emergency after Congress acts
1 year, 8 months ago

Biden ends COVID national emergency after Congress acts

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The U.S. national emergency to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic ended Monday as President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan congressional resolution to bring it to a close after three years — weeks before it was set to expire alongside a separate public health emergency. The national emergency allowed the government to take sweeping steps to respond to the …

President Joe Biden ends US Covid emergency status
1 year, 8 months ago

President Joe Biden ends US Covid emergency status

Hindustan Times  

President Joe Biden on Monday officially ended the Covid national health emergency that for more than three years underpinned extraordinary efforts to provide care for a country where more than a million people died from the disease. Read here: US gov appeals court to halt abortion pill order The White House said Biden signed a law passed earlier by Congress …

Biden ends COVID national emergency after Congress acts
1 year, 8 months ago

Biden ends COVID national emergency after Congress acts

LA Times  

President Biden signed a bipartisan congressional resolution to bring the national emergency to respond to COVID-19 to an end. The U.S. national emergency to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic ended Monday as President Biden signed a bipartisan congressional resolution to bring it to a close after three years — weeks before it was set to expire alongside a separate public …

News Analysis: Why the border may ‘never go back to what it was before Trump’
1 year, 9 months ago

News Analysis: Why the border may ‘never go back to what it was before Trump’

LA Times  

A Border Patrol officer talks to migrants in Eagle Pass, Texas, in May 2022 after they crossed the Rio Grande. But Biden’s proposal would make it very difficult for migrants to win asylum here if they travel through a third country and cross the border into the U.S. without permission. “Asylum at the border no longer exists as we previously …

How Biden asylum rule affects immigration, compares to Trump
1 year, 10 months ago

How Biden asylum rule affects immigration, compares to Trump

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — As President Joe Biden’s administration prepares for the end of regulations tied to the coronavirus pandemic that have severely limited the ability of asylum seekers to enter the U.S., it has proposed a rule that could dramatically alter who’s allowed to claim asylum at the southern border. Melissa Crow, a lawyer with the Center for Gender & Refugee …

Supreme Court won’t hear arguments Title 42 case as planned
1 year, 10 months ago

Supreme Court won’t hear arguments Title 42 case as planned

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says it will not hear arguments as planned March 1 in a case involving a Trump-era immigration policy used several millions of times over the past three years to quickly turn away migrants at the border. The justices on Thursday removed from their calendar the case involving Title 42, which justified the quick expulsion of …

Daily border encounters have dropped by more than half in January, DHS official says
1 year, 11 months ago

Daily border encounters have dropped by more than half in January, DHS official says

CNN  

Washington CNN — Daily migrant encounters along the US-Mexico border have dropped by more than half in January compared to last month, a Homeland Security official tells CNN, citing the expansion of a Trump-era Covid restriction and recently launched programs to legally migrate to the US. Last month, border authorities wrestled with a spike in border encounters, averaging around 7,000 …

Joe Biden Tells Illegal Migrants to Stay Away From US Border
1 year, 11 months ago

Joe Biden Tells Illegal Migrants to Stay Away From US Border

News 18  

President Joe Biden on Thursday warned undocumented migrants to stay away from the US border while opening the door to limited legal arrivals from four impoverished countries, in a delicate balancing act on one of the country’s most explosive political issues. Wendy Young, head of Kids in Need of Defense, which advocates for unaccompanied refugee and migrant children, said the …

US rights groups slam Biden’s ‘unacceptable’ asylum restrictions
1 year, 11 months ago

US rights groups slam Biden’s ‘unacceptable’ asylum restrictions

Al Jazeera  

New rules allowing US to turn more people away at border with Mexico ignore rights of asylum seekers, advocates say. Migration rights advocates in the United States have condemned the Biden administration’s new border restrictions for asylum seekers, saying the expansion of a contentious expulsion policy put peoples’ lives in danger. Returning Haitians to Mexico, she added, “where they are …

Biden announces major border strategy shift, expands Trump policy
1 year, 11 months ago

Biden announces major border strategy shift, expands Trump policy

LA Times  

A migrant family climbs the northern bank of the Rio Grande in December after crossing from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in their attempt to enter El Paso. The Biden administration announced a major shift to its immigration strategy Thursday, expanding the use of a Trump-era policy that gives border agents the power to quickly turn back migrants at the border while …

US Supreme Court keeps asylum limits in place for now
1 year, 11 months ago

US Supreme Court keeps asylum limits in place for now

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is keeping pandemic-era limits on asylum in place for now, dashing hopes of migrants who have been fleeing violence and inequality in Latin America and elsewhere to reach the United States. The Supreme Court’s decision said that the court will review the issue of whether the states have the right to intervene in the legal …

United States: What happens if COVID-19 asylum restrictions end? | EXPLAINER
1 year, 11 months ago

United States: What happens if COVID-19 asylum restrictions end? | EXPLAINER

India TV News  

United States COVID-19 latest updates : Since the pandemic began, the United States has been using a public health rule designed to limit the spread of disease to expel asylum-seekers on the southern border. That set off a legal back-and-forth with a group of conservative-leaning states pushing to keep Title 42 in place and the federal government and immigration advocates …

Supreme Court refuses to lift Trump-era rule at the southern border
1 year, 11 months ago

Supreme Court refuses to lift Trump-era rule at the southern border

LA Times  

Venezuelan migrants prepare to walk along the U.S. border fence after crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico to seek asylum with the U.S. Border Patrol on Sept. 22 in El Paso. A divided Supreme Court refused Tuesday to lift the Trump-era rule that has turned away migrants at the border as a public health threat. The court agreed to hear …

US Supreme Court upholds controversial Title 42 border policy
1 year, 11 months ago

US Supreme Court upholds controversial Title 42 border policy

Al Jazeera  

The United States Supreme Court has temporarily kept in place Title 42, a controversial immigration policy that has been criticised for denying refugees the ability to seek asylum in the US. But US President Joe Biden has met fierce pushback to his efforts to roll back the policy, with conservative judges and officials warning that the end of Title 42 …

Title 42 border rules confound Washington, migrants alike
2 years ago

Title 42 border rules confound Washington, migrants alike

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The drawn-out saga of Title 42, the set of emergency powers that allows border officials to quickly turn away migrants, has been chaotic at the U.S.-Mexico border. Title 42 allows border officials to deny people the right to seek asylum, and they have done so 2.5 million times since March 2020. “I don’t know why it’s taking them …

High court temporarily blocks lifting of asylum restrictions
2 years ago

High court temporarily blocks lifting of asylum restrictions

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is temporarily blocking an order that would lift pandemic-era restrictions on asylum seekers but the brief order leaves open the prospect that the restrictions in place since the coronavirus pandemic began and have been used to turn back hundreds of thousands of prospective asylum seekers could still expire on Wednesday. But as they’re set to …

Biden lawyers tell Supreme Court it’s time to end Trump policy at the border
2 years ago

Biden lawyers tell Supreme Court it’s time to end Trump policy at the border

LA Times  

President Biden’s lawyers urged the Supreme Court on Tuesday to reject an emergency appeal from Republican-led states and end the Trump-era COVID-19 policy that turned away migrants at the border who were seeking asylum. The Title 42 policy, based on a long-standing public health emergency law, was imposed by the Trump administration during the COVID-19 pandemic to prevent infected people …

As US debates Title 42 policy, asylum seekers left in limbo
2 years ago

As US debates Title 42 policy, asylum seekers left in limbo

Al Jazeera  

The Supreme Court intervened on Monday to block the controversial immigration policy’s scheduled expiration this week. In November, a US District Court judge declared the policy “arbitrary and capricious”, ruling to end Title 42. “The only real solution,” the document states, “is for Congress to fix our broken and outdated immigration system.” The Biden administration, meanwhile, has signalled it wants …

Biden under pressure to manage influx of asylum seekers ahead of easing of restrictions
2 years ago

Biden under pressure to manage influx of asylum seekers ahead of easing of restrictions

Hindustan Times  

U.S. lawmakers, both Republicans and Democrats, on Sunday pressed Democratic President Joe Biden to take action to manage an expected wave of asylum seekers at America's southern border when COVID-era restrictions are set to end this week. U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar, a Democrat who also represents Texas, urged Biden to enact a policy requiring people to only request asylum at …

Venezuelans stranded in Mexico hold out hope Biden will shift border policy: ‘I want to have faith’
2 years ago

Venezuelans stranded in Mexico hold out hope Biden will shift border policy: ‘I want to have faith’

LA Times  

Rosa Maria Trejo got to the Mexican capital thanks to a brother residing in Arizona who sent money to help finance the difficult trip from their native Venezuela. “My brother tells me it’s best to wait here until the situation in the United States changes.” Tens of thousands of Venezuelans who are stuck in Mexico appear to be making the …

States move to keep court from lifting Trump asylum policy
2 years, 1 month ago

States move to keep court from lifting Trump asylum policy

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A coalition of conservative-leaning states is making a last-ditch effort to keep in place a Trump-era public health rule that allows many asylum seekers to be turned away at the southern U.S. border. Late Monday, the 15 states filed what’s known as a motion to intervene — meaning they want to become part of the legal proceedings surrounding …

Judge orders end to Trump-era asylum restrictions at border
2 years, 1 month ago

Judge orders end to Trump-era asylum restrictions at border

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Biden administration to lift Trump-era asylum restrictions that have been a cornerstone of border enforcement since the beginning of COVID-19. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled in Washington that enforcement must end immediately for families and single adults, calling the ban “arbitrary and capricious.” The administration has not applied it …

US judge gives Biden administration five weeks to end Title 42
2 years, 1 month ago

US judge gives Biden administration five weeks to end Title 42

Al Jazeera  

The judge earlier said ‘arbitrary and capricious’ border expulsion policy was unlawful in a ruling welcomed by rights groups. A judge in the United States has given President Joe Biden’s administration five weeks to end a contentious policy that allowed authorities to expel hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers arriving at the southern border with Mexico. The administration had filed …

Controversial Title 42 border policy vacated by federal judge
2 years, 1 month ago

Controversial Title 42 border policy vacated by federal judge

LA Times  

Migrants walk by the shore after crossing the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas, in May 2022. A federal judge in Washington on Tuesday vacated a controversial border policy known as Title 42, a public health law invoked by the Trump administration during the pandemic that had allowed border agents to quickly turn back migrants. Previously, thousands of immigrants were …

Joe Biden reviving Trump-era rule to expel Venezuelan migrants
2 years, 2 months ago

Joe Biden reviving Trump-era rule to expel Venezuelan migrants

The Hindu  

Two years ago, candidate Joe Biden loudly denounced President Donald Trump for immigration policies that inflicted “cruelty and exclusion at every turn,” including toward those fleeing the "brutal" government of socialist Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. Mr. Biden last week invoked a Trump-era rule known as Title 42 — which Biden's own Justice Department is fighting in court — to deny …

Supreme Court: Biden can end Trump-era asylum policy
2 years, 5 months ago

Supreme Court: Biden can end Trump-era asylum policy

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Thursday the Biden administration can scrap a Trump-era immigration policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration courts, a victory for a White House that still must address the growing number of people seeking refuge at America’s southern border. Kavanaugh also wrote separately and noted that in general, when there …

Judge: COVID asylum restrictions must continue on border
2 years, 7 months ago

Judge: COVID asylum restrictions must continue on border

Associated Press  

NEW ORLEANS — Pandemic-related restrictions on migrants seeking asylum on the southern border must continue, a judge ruled Friday in an order blocking the Biden administration’s plan to lift them early next week. The judge cited what he said were the government’s own predictions that ending the restrictions would likely increase border crossings threefold, to as many as 18,000 daily. …

US judge blocks Biden’s plan to end Title 42 border expulsions
2 years, 7 months ago

US judge blocks Biden’s plan to end Title 42 border expulsions

Al Jazeera  

A judge in the United States has blocked the Biden administration’s plan to end a contentious immigration policy that allows US authorities to turn away most asylum seekers arriving at the country’s southern border with Mexico. “That means Title 42 will not end anytime soon,” tweeted Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior policy counsel at the American Immigration Council, about the federal judge’s …

Federal judge extends the blocking of Biden administration’s plans to lift Title 42
2 years, 7 months ago

Federal judge extends the blocking of Biden administration’s plans to lift Title 42

LA Times  

Migrants who crossed the Rio Grande into the U.S. wait to be processed by Border Patrol agents in Eagle Pass, Texas. In a ruling issued Friday, U.S. District Judge Robert Summerhays in Lafayette wrote that lawyers for 24 plaintiff states had established that a “significant threat of injury” would arise if Title 42, a 1944 federal public health statute invoked …

US states argue to keep contentious border policy in place
2 years, 7 months ago

US states argue to keep contentious border policy in place

Al Jazeera  

US court is hearing challenge to Biden administration’s plan to end Title 42 restriction at US-Mexico border this month. A group of 21 US states have argued that the Biden administration’s plan to lift a contentious border restriction that barred most asylum seekers from seeking protection at the US-Mexico border was made without sufficient consideration of the effects it would …

US quietly expands asylum limits while preparing to end them
2 years, 7 months ago

US quietly expands asylum limits while preparing to end them

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — The Biden administration has begun expelling Cubans and Nicaraguans to Mexico under pandemic-related powers to deny migrants a chance to seek asylum, expanding use of the rule even as it publicly says it has been trying to unwind it, officials said Wednesday. Another Mexican official, also not authorized to comment publicly, confirmed that up to 100 Cubans …

Biden says he will comply with courts if judge says they cannot lift Title 42
2 years, 7 months ago

Biden says he will comply with courts if judge says they cannot lift Title 42

Daily Mail  

President Joe Biden on Thursday said his administration would comply with the courts on Title 42, the public health order being used to turn away migrants at the border. President Joe Biden said he would comply with the courts on Title 42 Asylum-seekers gather at the Plaza Las Americas migrant tent camp in Reynosa, Mexico - experts expect a surge …

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