The Biden administration has said it will admit 100,000 people displaced by the Russian invasion. That hasn’t been the experience for the majority of migrants seeking asylum at ports of entry for the past two years
Asylum-seeking migrants depart from the San Ysidro Port of Entry after being denied entry to the U.S. in July 2021. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images In recent weeks, the U.S. government began allowing Ukrainians and Russians fleeing the war to request asylum on a case-by-case basis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Julia Neusner, an attorney with the advocacy and research organization Human Rights First, tweeted on March 23 that she witnessed 26 Ukrainian asylum seekers being granted entry into the U.S.
Neusner investigates the impact U.S. immigration policies have on people seeking asylum at the border. When we spoke, she had been in Tijuana for ten days documenting the situation at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. “Ukrainians and Russians absolutely should have the right to seek asylum at the border. The government is doing the right thing,” Neusner said. “They’re upholding U.S. and international refugee law.
Trapping people in Mexico and denying them the ability to request protection at ports of entry has enriched organized criminal groups who systemically kidnap migrants for ransom and control the crossings between ports of entry, which are the only avenues to seek protection at the moment. Our organization has tracked almost 10,000 kidnappings, assaults, and other violent attacks against people stranded in Mexico since Biden took office.
At McAllen, Texas, for example, one lawyer reported about a month ago that most of the applications she’s submitting there were being accepted. And then there are parts of the border in Texas and Nevada where zero applications for exemptions have been granted. There’s no consistent policy. There were reports this week that the Biden administration may lift Title 42 and that the change would take effect by late May. What do you think about how it’s taken so long for this?
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