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Several organizations have launched against President Joe Biden’s new policy that will allow the conditional arrival of some 30,000 immigrants a month, but will expand expedited deportations and restrict asylum requests.
“We are very disappointed by the announcement that the administration is moving forward with a ‘traffic ban’ that would drastically limit the legal rights of asylum seekers,” said Sergio Gonzales, executive director of the Immigration Hub.
That organization specializes in immigration legislative processes and has had key rapprochements with the Biden Administration, for which it criticized the expansion of Title 42.
“We oppose any expansion of the use of Title 42, a public health authority that has been misused for border enforcement,” he said.
President Biden said that he was against Title 42, but that it was a rule that he had to follow by court order, although he hoped that it would end this year, if the Supreme Court so decides.
Mary Miller Flowers, Senior Policy Analyst at the Youth Center for the Rights of Immigrant Children, also criticized the new federal immigration policy that would affect immigrants from Haiti, Cuba and Nicaragua, since they could be expeditiously deported if they do not request provisional protection. as ordered.
“New rules that will prevent many children, families and adults from applying for asylum if they traveled irregularly through Mexico or Panama to reach the border,” it warned. “President Biden’s announcement today is a far cry from the commitments he made on Day One to fight for racial justice, immigrant rights and family protection.”
The National Association for New Americans (NPNA), a network of 60 immigrant rights organizations in 40 states, called on the Biden Administration to fully restore the asylum system, in addition to promoting immigration reform in Congress.
“Asylum is a legal right, and providing special access to a certain number of people from certain countries undermines the asylum system, for low-income people to go through the parole process, and excludes other asylum seekers from reaching the security they seek,” said Nicole Melaku, NPNA executive director.
The United We Dream organization also criticized the Biden Administration’s “transit ban” policy, considering that they are not very different from those of the Republican Party.
“Title 42 is a cruel policy devised by white supremacists. [Donald] Trump, Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller, and with it, our government is denying hundreds of thousands of black and brown immigrants their right to seek legal asylum,” said Juliana Macedo do Nascimento, deputy director of the Federal Defender’s Office for that organization. “By continuing to take advantage of and even expand Title 42, the Biden Administration is hurting the very people who are seeking asylum and who they purport to protect.”