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Biden to sign executive order limiting asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border (www.tucsonsentinel.com)

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  President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Tuesday that will allow him to partly suspend asylum requests at the U.S.-Mexico border when daily unauthorized crossings reach a threshold of 2,500 migrants.

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[–] th3raid0r@tucson.social 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Here's the changes:

The order makes three changes to asylum law under Title 8 of the Immigration and Nationality Act when that threshold of 2,500 migrants is reached, a senior administration official said. The first is that a noncitizen who crosses the border without authorization will be ineligible for asylum.

The second is any noncitizen who crosses the border while the order is in effect and is processed for removal will only be referred to a credible fear interview with an asylum officer “if they manifest or express a fear of return to their country or country of removal, a fear of persecution or torture, or an intention to apply for asylum,” a senior administration official said.

And the third is raising the standard for credible fear interviews to a “reasonable probability of persecution or torture standard,” which is “a new, substantially higher standard than is currently being applied at the border,” a senior administration official said.

My thoughts: Largely performative and only slightly moves the needle right all things considered. You'd think with all the shrieking that this was back to family separations and putting people in cages or something.