Asylum-seekers from four countries—Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Haiti—will be turned away if they cross the border illegally.
, emphasizing that unless comprehensive immigration reform legislation is passed, “the United States’ broken immigration system will indeed remain broken.”
, a senior policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute who has spent years studying how U.S. policies impact immigrants. Here’s our conversation, lightly edited and condensed for clarity:Julia Gelatt: I think partly, the administration implemented a similar policy just for Venezuela in October and had seen success in their mind in terms of much lower numbers of people coming from Venezuela in the subsequent months. So I think partly they’re building on that experience. I suspect that there are also political motivations, addressing what has been a big criticism of President Biden: that he hadn’t been to the border and that he wasn’t taking the border seriously.
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