U.S. border agents have been instructed to summarily deport migrants crossing into the country illegally without allowing them to request legal protection.
  • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldOP
    2813·
    12 days ago

    Important to note that

    The Biden administration enacted its own asylum restriction last June, also citing the 212(f) authorities. While that order disqualified most migrants crossing the southern border illegally from asylum, it still gave them the opportunity to plead their case before asylum officers if they expressed fear of being harmed once deported.

    Asylum officers that have been caught being racist and abusing migrants so many times I don’t even know what to link to, so here’s a catchall page from the ACLU (archived), but go on.

    Former President Joe Biden’s asylum restrictions also had a major exemption: they did not apply to migrants waiting in Mexico who used a government smartphone app, known as CBP One, to request a time to enter the U.S. at an official border entry point.

    An app that never worked right (archived) that allowed you to apply for an appointment CBP might never give you (archived).

    Trump is going to be awful for migrants in a ton of ways (for example, doing ICE raids on churches schools and hospitals is new and awful), but at least as far as people seeking asylum go it will be hard for him to be any worse than Biden was.