Is Brandon doing something sane for once? I had to check if this was the Babylon Bee.
The Biden administration’s new policy will penalize migrants who enter America illegally. It goes into effect in May and expires in two years:
Consistent with America’s history as a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants, this proposed rule ensures enforcement of U.S. immigration laws, lawful pathways, and access to asylum and other forms of humanitarian relief for those who need it.Under the proposed rule, individuals who circumvent available, established pathways to lawful migration – including those new processes announced on January 5 as well as a newly-available mechanism for migrants from any nationality to schedule a time and place to arrive at a port of entry – and also fail to seek protection in a country through which they traveled on their way to the United States, would be subject to a rebuttable presumption of asylum ineligibility in the United States unless they meet specified exceptions. Individuals who cannot establish a valid claim to protection under the standards set out in the proposed rule will be subject to prompt removal under Title 8 authorities, which carries a five-year bar to reentry. The proposed rule will be open to public comment in the Federal Register for 30 days. Additional detail can be found here.The proposed rule is an emergency measure that is intended to respond to the elevated levels of encounters anticipated after the lifting of the Title 42 Order. As such, it is designed to be temporary in duration, applying to those who enter the United States at the Southwest land border for 24 months following the rule’s effective date and subsequent to the lifting of the Title 42 order.
The exceptions include:
- Faced an acute medical emergency;
- Faced an extreme and imminent threat to their life or safety, such as an imminent threat of rape, kidnapping, torture or murder; or
- Were a victim of a severe form of trafficking, as defined in 8 CFR § 214.11.
Activists and migrants have criticized Biden since the administration started discussing it in January.
ACLU senior attorney Lee Gelernt said the group would sue the administration if they go “through with the transit ban.”
At least 300 immigrant advocacy groups wrote, “The Biden administration must adjust course immediately and abandon the misguided pursuit of an asylum ban. We urge you not to issue the [proposal] on the asylum ban.”
Biden’s people told people to calm down because the policy does not ban asylum.
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