Group of 77 Democratic lawmakers sends letter to President Biden criticizing his administration’s policies restricting asylum access for migrants crossing the southern border.
While 30,000 migrants from those four countries will be eligible to apply for humanitarian parole protections from their home countries, Mexico has also agreed to take back 30,000per month from those same countries as the Biden administration expands the Trump-era Covid protections known as Title 42.
“Instead of issuing a new asylum transit ban and expanding Title 42,” the Democratic lawmakers said in the letter to Biden, “we encourage your administration to stand by your commitment to restore and protect the rights of asylum seekers and refugees.” The letter noted that asylum is an international right that should not be restricted.
As many as 20 Republican-governed states, with the help of a group led by Miller, are now attempting to block the administration from opening those legal pathways in a new lawsuit recently filed in federal court in Texas. Customs and Border Protection encountered undocumented migrants more than 250,000 times in December, a record monthly high to end a record high year of border encounters.Senior Homeland Security officials told reporters on a call Wednesday that since the new policies for Haitians, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans and Cubans went into effect early this month, the number of people from those countries crossing the border had been drastically cut.
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