“Since Congress passed the Refugee Act in 1980, not one administration has prioritized the needs and lives of people seeking asylum.”
to address the “Trump-created humanitarian crisis at our border,” he has struggled to undo some of the more egregious policies and their headline-grabbing consequences that were a hallmark of the previous administration.
” another controversial Trump administration anti-immigrant initiative, the “Remain in Mexico” policy, under which asylum seekers were forced to wait along the southern border in dangerous and unsanitary makeshift encampments while their claims were being processed. The program was terminated on June 1, 2021. However, a Texas judge issued an injunction blocking the termination.
Title 42 “never had anything to do with public health,” said Julia Neusner, research and policy associate attorney for refugee protection at Human Rights First. “Because the Biden administration waited [to end the policy], thousands of people were trapped in danger at the border and political opposition mounted that could have been avoided if they had gotten rid of it immediately.
The Biden administration has increased the number of refugees who will be allowed into the U.S., which “does help … because that allows the federal government to assign resources to be able to process more people at the borders, and there is a huge backlog of applications,” said Tanco, co-author of the report. “As a result of the Remain in Mexico policy and Title 42, 60,000 people have been waiting up to three years along the U.S.-Mexico border under terrible conditions.
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