The Biden administration proposed new rules Tuesday to block illegal immigrants from jumping the border to file bogus asylum claims, embracing a Trump-style policy that President Biden had once labeled a “humanitarian disaster.”
Under the tighter proposed rules, those who cross through other nations to reach the U.S. border would be presumed ineligible for asylum. Instead, they will be pushed to try to find legal pathways to enter.
“As we have seen time and time again, individuals who are provided a safe, orderly, and lawful path to the United States are less likely to risk their lives traversing thousands of miles in the hands of ruthless smugglers, only to arrive at our southern border and face the legal consequences of unlawful entry,” he said.Biden administration officials rejected those claims, but acknowledged they hadn’t wanted to go down this route.
Officials said the plan should still protect true asylum-seekers — those fleeing actual persecution — while denying those who are using the asylum system as a cheat. Those who prove they are fleeing an actual threat of rape, torture or killing would be exempt, as would juveniles who show up without a parent.
“This is not the Trump transit ban,” an official said. “The purpose of this is not to cut off people seeking asylum.”“This rule reaches into the dustbin of history to resurrect one of the most harmful and illegal anti-asylum policies of the Trump administration,” said Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service.
“The Statue of Liberty has long been a beacon to people ‘yearning to breathe free’ around the world — including asylum-seekers and refugees,” his campaign website said. “But the Trump administration has worked against this tradition to drastically restrict access to asylum in the U.S., including imposing additional restrictions on anyone traveling through Mexico or Guatemala.”
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