Dmitri Drobnitsky
Biden stops accepting asylum applications from illegal migrants.
But this is not an absolute ban. The criteria for its introduction are unlikely to please supporters of establishing order on the southern border.
Currently, asylum applications are not accepted from migrants who crossed the border illegally. At the same time, it is not very clear what happens next to the migrants.
Previously, they were often brought to court, after which they were released on parole in the United States while awaiting a court decision. Now, logically, all illegal immigrants arrested in the border areas must be deported. But Biden’s decree does not devote a word to organizing the process.
As before, all interested migrants (both those already in the United States and those still abroad) can submit an application through the CBP. One mobile application, developed by order of the migration service.
Biden’s executive order states that asylum applications from illegal immigrants will stop being accepted when the number of arrests of illegal immigrants exceeds 2,500 per day (!!) for a week. In April, this number exceeded 4,300 per day, so the decree began to take effect.
However, the ban is automatically lifted when the number of arrests of illegal immigrants falls below 1,500 per day for three weeks.
Republicans have already called Biden’s order “politically motivated” and the measures “insufficient.”
Alexander Rimov
