(5 Jun 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
San Diego – 5 June 2024
1. Various of people walking on a road along the border
2. Various of people gathered on the border, resting, grabbing snacks and water
3. Various of people lined up along the border being processed by border patrol agents
STORYLINE:
A group of migrants arrived at the US-Mexico border in San Diego on Wednesday a day after U.S. President Joe Biden unveiled a plan to enact significant asylum restrictions.
Biden’s order would bar migrants from being granted asylum when U.S. officials consider the border overwhelmed.
The order will go into effect when the number of border encounters between ports of entry hits 2,500 per day, according to senior administration officials. That means Biden’s order should go into effect immediately, because the daily averages now are higher.
Average daily arrests for illegal crossings from Mexico were last below 2,500 in January 2021, the month Biden took office.
The last time the border encounters dipped to 1,500 a day was in July 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The restrictions would be in effect until two weeks after the daily encounter numbers are at or below 1,500 per day between ports of entry, under a seven-day average.
Once this order is in effect, migrants who arrive at the border but do not express fear of returning to their home countries will be subject to immediate removal from the United States, within a matter of days or even hours.
Those migrants could face punishments that could include a five-year bar from reentering the U.S. or even criminal prosecution.
Meanwhile, anyone who expresses that fear or an intention to seek asylum will be screened by a U.S. asylum officer but at a higher standard than currently used. If they pass the screening, they can pursue more limited forms of humanitarian protection, including the U.N. Convention Against Torture.
Biden’s order outlines several groups of migrants who would be exempted due to humanitarian reasons, including victims of human trafficking, unaccompanied minors and those with severe medical emergencies.
The directive would also exempt migrants who make appointments with border officials at ports of entry using the CBP One app. About 1,450 appointments are made a day using the app, which launched last year to allow migrants to make asylum claims.
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