US ends asylum restrictions for children traveling alone
2 years, 9 months ago

US ends asylum restrictions for children traveling alone

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Unaccompanied child migrants trying to enter the United States will no longer be denied a chance to seek asylum under new guidance announced by U.S. health authorities. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in announcing the change late Friday night, said “that expulsion of unaccompanied noncitizen children is not warranted to protect the public health.” The change was announced shortly before a court order was to take effect that would have allowed the Biden administration to expel unaccompanied children seeking asylum under Title 42 authority, which was introduced in March 2020 to prevent spread of COVID-19. Testing and other preventive measures allow children traveling alone to be released to sponsors in the United States, the CDC said. A federal judge ruled in a lawsuit by the state of Texas that the CDC failed to explain why children traveling alone were exempted from Title 42, and gave the administration a week to appeal.

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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 …

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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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 …

Asylum seekers face decision to split up families or wait indefinitely under new border policy
1 year, 10 months ago

Asylum seekers face decision to split up families or wait indefinitely under new border policy

LA Times  

Inside a tent near the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico, Jeyson woke up every day for a month before 3 a.m. to fill out applications to request asylum for his family of four through a U.S. government mobile app. Instead, he said, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent told them last week that because each member of the family …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

How will asylum work after Title 42 ends? No one knows yet
2 years ago

How will asylum work after Title 42 ends? No one knows yet

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — Show up at a border crossing with Mexico and ask a U.S. official for asylum? “I absolutely wish that we had more information to share with folks,” said Kate Clark, senior director for immigration services at Jewish Family Service of San Diego, which has facilitated travel within the United States for more than 110,000 migrants released from …

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 …

US plans for more migrant releases when asylum limits end
2 years ago

US plans for more migrant releases when asylum limits end

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security said more migrants may be released into the United States to pursue immigration cases when Trump-era asylum restrictions end next week, when a Texas congressman says some border officials estimate about 50,000 migrants could be waiting to cross into the U.S. U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, said Customs and Border Protection officials told …

US plans for more migrant releases when asylum limits end
2 years ago

US plans for more migrant releases when asylum limits end

The Independent  

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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 delays end of asylum restrictions to late December
2 years, 1 month ago

Judge delays end of asylum restrictions to late December

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — A federal judge on Wednesday granted the Biden administration a five-week delay to end far-reaching asylum restrictions, writing in upper-case letters that he was doing so “WITH GREAT RELUCTANCE.” U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan acknowledged in his brief order that attorneys for asylum-seeking families didn’t object to the delay and that the administration wasn’t challenging his decision, …

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 …

Migrant crossings at US border rise for 4th straight month
2 years, 6 months ago

Migrant crossings at US border rise for 4th straight month

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — U.S. border authorities stopped migrants more often on the southern border for a fourth straight month in May, apparently unaffected by expectations that pandemic-era limits on asylum may be lifted. Migrants were stopped 239,416 times in May, up 2% from 235,478 in April and up 33% from 180,597 in May 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Wednesday. …

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 …

Ukrainian refugees make late dash into US before Biden's deadline shutting down route from Mexico
2 years, 7 months ago

Ukrainian refugees make late dash into US before Biden's deadline shutting down route from Mexico

Daily Mail  

Thousands of Ukrainians made desperate efforts to enter the US as a White House ban on border crossings came into place. There were chaotic scenes around the San Ysidro pedestrian crossing in Tijuana, Mexico last night as migrants rushed to cross the border before it closed at 9pm local time. But crucially, it ends Ukrainian refugees' exemption from Title 42, …

Migrant crossings spike as US plans to lift curb on asylum
2 years, 8 months ago

Migrant crossings spike as US plans to lift curb on asylum

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Migrants attempted to cross the U.S.-Mexico border at the highest level in two decades as the U.S. prepares for even larger numbers with the expected lifting of a pandemic-era order that turned away asylum seekers. Immigration authorities stopped migrants 221,303 times along the Southwest border in March, a 33% increase from a month earlier, according to U.S. Customs …

As Title 42 winds down, aid groups prepare for shift at US border
2 years, 8 months ago

As Title 42 winds down, aid groups prepare for shift at US border

Al Jazeera  

Migrant advocates and lawyers expect more people to arrive at US-Mexico border ahead of restrictive policy’s end in May. Now, as the Biden administration moves ahead with its plan to end Title 42, a health order invoked due to COVID-19 that effectively barred most asylum seekers from entering the US, aid groups at the border are preparing for a shift …

Federal lawsuit seeks to block end to sweeping asylum limits
2 years, 8 months ago

Federal lawsuit seeks to block end to sweeping asylum limits

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — Conservative-led governments in Arizona, Louisiana and Missouri have sued President Joe Biden’s administration to prevent federal officials from ending a public health rule that allows many asylum seekers to be turned away at the southern U.S. border. “The Biden administration’s dangerous and unlawful immigration policy encourages illegal border crossings and poses a threat to law-abiding citizens across our …

Three states sue Biden administration over ending Title 42 policy
2 years, 8 months ago

Three states sue Biden administration over ending Title 42 policy

Al Jazeera  

Missouri, Arizona and Louisiana say the move would lead to a ‘crisis’ at the US-Mexico border. Washington, DC – Three states have sued the Biden administration over its plans to lift Title 42, a contentious border policy that has led to the expulsion of the vast majority of people trying to file asylum claims in the United States. “Today, Missouri, …

Border asylum limits ending, but not Biden’s migrant woes
2 years, 8 months ago

Border asylum limits ending, but not Biden’s migrant woes

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The ban on asylum-seekers at the U.S-Mexico border on public health grounds was imposed by a president who wanted to restrict immigration entirely. Greg Abbott of Texas said Biden was refusing to listen to Americans and had “chosen to jeopardize the safety and security of those very Americans he swore to protect and defend by ending Title 42 …

The U.S. is ending its pandemic border rules. It could mean a surge in migration
2 years, 8 months ago

The U.S. is ending its pandemic border rules. It could mean a surge in migration

NPR  

The U.S. is ending its pandemic border rules. It could mean a surge in migration Enlarge this image toggle caption Sandy Huffaker/AFP via Getty Images Sandy Huffaker/AFP via Getty Images The Biden administration is moving to end sweeping pandemic border restrictions known as Title 42 on May 23. Since March 2020, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has used the …

COVID-19 rates plunge as decision nears on US asylum limits
2 years, 8 months ago

COVID-19 rates plunge as decision nears on US asylum limits

Associated Press  

SOMERTON, Ariz. — One by one, a voice called out the names of 169 people just released by U.S. Border Patrol. They were quarantined to motel rooms, while other migrants boarded chartered buses to Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport for flights across the U.S. Theirs were among just seven of 5,301 tests the Regional Center for Border Health near Yuma, …

COVID-19 rates plunge as decision nears on US asylum limits
2 years, 9 months ago

COVID-19 rates plunge as decision nears on US asylum limits

The Independent  

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US reverses course, allows Ukrainian family to seek asylum
2 years, 9 months ago

US reverses course, allows Ukrainian family to seek asylum

Associated Press  

TIJUANA, Mexico — U.S. authorities allowed a Ukrainian woman and her three children to seek asylum Thursday, a reversal from a day earlier when she was denied entry under the Biden administration’s sweeping restrictions for seeking humanitarian protection. Blaine Bookey, legal director of the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, was returning to San Diego from Tijuana when she saw …

US court rules Biden can continue expulsions at US-Mexico border
2 years, 9 months ago

US court rules Biden can continue expulsions at US-Mexico border

Al Jazeera  

Judges ruled that the arrivals ‘have no right to be in the United States’ and can be immediately expelled. A group of impacted asylum seekers and migrants, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and other non-profit organisations, sued over the expulsion policy known as Title 42, which the administration of President Joe Biden, who took office more than a …

Inside Biden’s border plans: How optimism turned to chaos
3 years, 1 month ago

Inside Biden’s border plans: How optimism turned to chaos

Associated Press  

McALLEN, Texas — For about four months before President Joe Biden took office, advisers engaged in intense internal debate about how quickly they should undo his predecessor’s hardline border policies. In the summer of 2014, large numbers of unaccompanied children from Central America’s Northern Triangle countries — Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras — showed up along the Texas border in …

Title 42 explained: The obscure public health policy at the center of a U.S. border fight
3 years, 2 months ago

Title 42 explained: The obscure public health policy at the center of a U.S. border fight

LA Times  

A U.S.-bound caravan of more than 500 migrants, including many Haitians and Central Americans, and including many families, embarked on foot from southern Mexican city of Tapachula on Sept. 4. Under Title 42, the vast majority of the migrants would have been turned away from the U.S. At the center of today’s most heated immigration debate is a decades-old health …

US rights groups petition for a stop to asylum seeker expulsions
3 years, 2 months ago

US rights groups petition for a stop to asylum seeker expulsions

Al Jazeera  

Washington, DC – Migration advocates in the United States are urging an international human rights commission to demand the Biden administration end the use of Title 42, a public health directive that allows the US to immediately expel most migrants who arrive at its borders. Title 42 was first invoked in March 2020 by former President Donald Trump, whose administration …

EXPLAINER: Biden uses Trump-era tool against Haiti migrants
3 years, 3 months ago

EXPLAINER: Biden uses Trump-era tool against Haiti migrants

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is relying on a contested Trump-era policy as it disperses thousands of Haitian migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border in and around the small South Texas city of Del Rio. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Monday that most of the Haitians removed from the Del Rio encampment have been expelled under the authority of Title 42, …

Why is the Biden administration still keeping migrant kids locked up? The saga of Title 42
3 years, 4 months ago

Why is the Biden administration still keeping migrant kids locked up? The saga of Title 42

Salon  

"A lot of girls cry. In a recent letter to the White House, more than 100 advocacy and human rights groups urged the president to rescind Title 42 expulsions, charging that the practice violates both U.S. refugee law and international treaties, and endangers people seeking protection at the U.S.-Mexico border According to Border Report in Texas, the expulsions have no …

‘Wrong and shameful’: Critics decry extended US COVID refugee ban
3 years, 4 months ago

‘Wrong and shameful’: Critics decry extended US COVID refugee ban

Al Jazeera  

The Biden administration has extended Title 42, an order that expels asylum seekers under COVID-19 precautions. #WelcomeWithDignity — RAICES August 2, 2021 “Biden is failing to deliver on his promise of a humane immigration approach by keeping in place Trump’s Title 42 which unlawfully expels refugees seeking safety in the US without due process,” Cristina Jimenez, founder of the United …

Biden could STOP the expulsion of migrant families by July 31
3 years, 6 months ago

Biden could STOP the expulsion of migrant families by July 31

Daily Mail  

The White House is considering ending a border policy signed under Donald Trump that allowed migrant families to be sent back to Mexico after they crossed into the U.S., according to a report on Sunday. The Biden Administration is considering revoking the policy known as Title 42 by July 31, Axios reported, as a record 170,000 migrants crossed the border …

Rights groups decry ‘flawed’ US asylum exemptions process
3 years, 6 months ago

Rights groups decry ‘flawed’ US asylum exemptions process

Al Jazeera  

Aid organisations are calling on the Biden administration to end Title 42 expulsions and restore asylum at border. “It puts non-governmental organisations in a very difficult position because asylum is a governmental responsibility and our government should be performing these functions.” Critics say Title 42 is a guise to prevent migrants from coming to the US – despite the right …

‘There was no going back': Migrants send kids into US alone
3 years, 7 months ago

‘There was no going back': Migrants send kids into US alone

Associated Press  

LA JOYA, Texas — Marely had traveled for 13 days, trekking with her mother from Central America to the busiest corridor for illegal U.S.-Mexico border crossings. They told us to run, to keep going,” said Marely, who turned herself over to Border Patrol agents in La Joya, Texas. For two hours, the girl from a village south of San Salvador …

Nearly 500 Asylum-Seekers Have Been Attacked As Biden Keeps Turning Them Away
3 years, 8 months ago

Nearly 500 Asylum-Seekers Have Been Attacked As Biden Keeps Turning Them Away

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Asylum-seekers turned away at the United States’ southern border over the last four months have reported nearly 500 cases of attacks or kidnappings in Mexico, according to a new joint report from three human rights and immigration organizations. “What I have before me is our clients being assaulted, being kidnapped, being sex trafficked, being tortured, being raped,” …

The Trump-era order Biden is using to turn away most migrants
3 years, 8 months ago

The Trump-era order Biden is using to turn away most migrants

Al Jazeera  

Title 42, invoked last year amid COVID pandemic, allows US to immediately return adults and families at the border. We are expelling single adults.” In February alone, US authorities sent more than 72,000 people back across the southern border. The Trump administration in March of last year invoked Title 42 – a public health provision in the US Code that …

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