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LATIN AMERICA ADVISOR

LATIN AMERICA ADVISOR

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June 13, 2024

What’s Behind New U.S. Restrictions on Migrants’ Asylum?

U.S. President Joe Biden last week issued an order restricting migrants’ ability to be granted asylum when illegal border crossings are at elevated levels. Migrants in Mexico are pictured. // File Photo: Mexican Government.

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  • U.S. President Joe Biden on June 4 issued an executive order to restrict migrants’ ability to be granted asylum when illegal crossings of the country’s border with Mexico exceed 2,500 per day. Average daily arrests for illegal crossings were last below that number in January 2021, the month Biden took office, according to the Associated Press. The announcement also came five months before the U.S. presidential election and amid criticism that Biden has done too little to stem illegal immigration. How will the order affect the flows of migrants over the border, and what will the order result in for migrants? How well are the United States and Mexico working together on the issue? What will be the political result of the order for Biden?

A

Andrew Selee, president of the Migration Policy Institute: “The recent announcement that President Biden was restricting access to asylum for those crossing between ports of entry was made—and greeted—with hyperbole. Biden spoke of ‘closing the border,’ while some critics on the right said the measure would do nothing, and some critics on the left said it was the end of asylum. In reality, what the administration did was raise the standard significantly for applying for asylum between ports of entry in order to encourage migrants to use the existing appointment system in order to seek asylum at ports of entry. The legal authority the administration used allows it to refuse entry to migrants who cross between ports of entry, but the measure included several important exceptions and came without any new resources that would allow…”

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