(RNS) — Leaders of Catholic organizations helping migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border are denouncing President Joe Biden’s new asylum restrictions as shelter directors brace for its impact on conditions.“It’s going to cause a lot of pain and confusion,” said Dylan Corbett, executive director at the Hope Border Institute, which supports migrants in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, on the Mexican side.
Biden’s measures temporarily block the processing of most asylum claims and will remain in place until two weeks after the seven-day average of migrants crossing the border without legal permission drops below 1,500. (The ban is then reinstated if the seven-day average rises above 2,500 migrants.)
The policy also requires migrants to volunteer that they fled their home countries out of fear, rather than in response to a question from an immigration officer. In the jargon of the border, migrants must “manifest” fear to gain a “credible fear” interview to start the asylum process.
Biden’s order also shortens the time asylum-seekers have to find a lawyer to four hours, from 24. “This is really a draconian step” that will affect asylum case outcomes, Corbett said. “It will essentially run roughshod over the due process rights of migrants at the border.”
Dylan Corbett. (Photo via Twitter)
“If you wanted to manage migration at the border, this wouldn’t be the policy,” Corbett said, explaining the policy will be bad for migrants, asylum seekers and border communities, as well as, likely, for border-enforcement agencies.
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Biden’s measures temporarily block the processing of most asylum claims and will remain in place until two weeks after the seven-day average of migrants crossing the border without legal permission drops below 1,500. (The ban is then reinstated if the seven-day average rises above 2,500 migrants.)
The policy also requires migrants to volunteer that they fled their home countries out of fear, rather than in response to a question from an immigration officer. In the jargon of the border, migrants must “manifest” fear to gain a “credible fear” interview to start the asylum process.
Biden’s order also shortens the time asylum-seekers have to find a lawyer to four hours, from 24. “This is really a draconian step” that will affect asylum case outcomes, Corbett said. “It will essentially run roughshod over the due process rights of migrants at the border.”
Dylan Corbett. (Photo via Twitter)
“If you wanted to manage migration at the border, this wouldn’t be the policy,” Corbett said, explaining the policy will be bad for migrants, asylum seekers and border communities, as well as, likely, for border-enforcement agencies.
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