Biden Considering Bad Asylum Plan for Illegal Migrants
The administration should detain them as the law requires, not give them yet another ‘bite at the apple’
By Andrew R. Arthur on April 3, 2021
On April 1, NPR reported that the Biden administration is considering overhauling the asylum process for arriving aliens (including illegal migrants) at the border, along the lines of a September 2018 proposal from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI). It is a bad plan, which would do little if anything to discourage illegal entrants, instead giving them two “bites†at the asylum “apple†and delay their removals.
As I noted in an October 14 post, Biden referenced that plan on his campaign website, where he promised:
Migrants who qualify for an asylum claim will be admitted to the country through an orderly process and connected with resources that will help them care for themselves. Migrants who do not qualify will have the opportunity to make their claim before an immigration judge.
Here is how the current system works: Under section 235(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), aliens who are apprehended by CBP entering illegally at the border, or without proper documents at the ports of entry, are subject to “expedited removalâ€, meaning that they can be quickly removed by DHS from the United States without receiving a removal order from an immigration judge (IJ).
https://cis.org/Arthur/Biden-Considering-Bad-Asylum-Plan-Illegal-Migrants
