The Biden administration is reportedly preparing to make an executive order cracking down on asylum claims at the U.S.-Mexico border more permanent.
The White House will soon issue changes to an existing executive order that will make lifting asylum restrictions more difficult. According to said two sources who spoke to CBS News. As a result of executive orders issued by President Joe Biden over the summer, illegal border crossings along the southern border have decreased dramatically. (Related: Aurora, Colorado aims to increase police force by $10 million in fight against Torren de Aragua gang)
With illegal border crossings at a peak and his presidential campaign slowing, Biden issued a presidential proclamation in June aimed at curbing the number of daily illegal border crossings.
President Biden's order temporarily halts the entry of foreign nationals crossing the U.S.-Mexico border after the average number of daily border encounters exceeded 2,500 in a week, according to an administration statement. The order was to remain in effect for two weeks after the number of encounters along the southern border dropped to a seven-day average of less than 1,500.
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The order primarily draws on authority under Sections 212(f) and 215(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to ensure that Border Patrol agents and other Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers comply with immigration laws. It has become easier to quickly deport violating foreign nationals. The legal basis for remaining in the country.
The number of illegal border encounters has decreased almost every month since the order went into effect. According to Go to the latest CBP data. The results brought some relief to the administration, which has overseen a massive wave of illegal immigration into the country since taking office.
According to CBS News, the White House is reportedly currently considering tweaking the criteria for lifting a partial asylum ban, which would make it more difficult for federal authorities to lift the order. It will be. Under the upcoming reported changes, the criteria for lifting asylum restrictions will only occur if the seven-day average falls below 1,500 people for 28 days.
“Encounter rates in July and August were the lowest since September 2020,” White House Press Secretary Angelo Fernández Hernández told CBS News. “While the Biden-Harris Administration is taking effective action, Republican officials continue to demonstrate they are more interested in cynical political games than securing our border.”
Illegal border crossings have declined in recent months, but critics say the White House is only glossing over the problem by creating a program that would allow foreign nationals to enter the country legally en masse. There is.
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The administration recently boasted that the executive order had reduced border encounters between ports of entry by more than 50%, but the same announcement also noted that more than 500,000 foreign nationals are entering the country through the mass parole program. It was done. And about 1 million others are seeking to enter the country and are scheduled to meet with the U.S. government.
Approximately 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans have been flown into the country and released on parole under an initiative launched by the Biden-Harris administration known as the CHNV program, according to a CBP press release. It is said that it has been recognized. Additionally, approximately 813,000 immigrants have made appointments to appear at ports of entry through the CBP One app since its introduction in January 2023.
“These plans hide the crisis in plain sight and only increase the number of unauthorized aliens released into communities without adequate vetting or testing,” said House Homeland Committee Chairman Mark Green. There is,” he said. said Early this month.
The lawmaker previously called both efforts a “massive shell game” that allows inadmissible aliens to enter the country legally instead of crossing the border illegally.
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