US detention of asylum seekers ‘inhumane and wasteful’: Report
Al JazeeraHuman Rights First says asylum seekers were jailed on average for 3.7 months after being allowed into the United States. “Jailing asylum seekers is fundamentally dehumanising and cruel,” said Becky Gendelman, an associate attorney for research refugee protection at the group and the report’s author. The report, entitled “‘I’m a prisoner here’: Biden administration policies lock up asylum seekers”, found that since President Joe Biden took office in January of last year, asylum seekers were held in detention centres for 3.7 months on average. “While the Biden administration has turned away and expelled many asylum seekers under Title 42 it has also subjected many whom it doesn’t expel to prolonged and cruel detention,” Gendleman said. Human Rights First’s report said the mass jailing of asylum seekers is also the result of Biden administration policy that designates people who cross the border, including asylum seekers, as a “threat to border security” and a priority for enforcement, according to a February 2021 ICE memo.
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